Postmodern space disperses elements where modern work agglomerated them

Evidence

Internal differentiation of this kind, therefore, as though the elements and components of the work were held in solution by a kind of antigravity of the postmodern utterly different in spirit from the law of falling bodies of the modern, which sought to agglomerate and combine by attraction (Freud’s Eros), would seem to be a fundamental symptom of postmodern space. The other is, on the face of it, unrelated to this, for it seems to imply a positive principle of relationship rather than this centrifugal movement, and rather suggests the way in which organisms react to foreign bodies and seek to surround and neutralize them in a kind of spatial quarantine or cordon sanitaire. Yet such elements are most often extrinsic or extrasystemic merely by virtue of their belonging to the past. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 265

Categorization

• XREF: The antigravity vs. gravitational opposition parallels the parody/pastiche distinction: modern art attracts, combines, and quotes with intent (parody); postmodern holds elements in suspension without directional pull (pastiche). — connects to: Industrial-era art loses its concrete human center as elements disperse into contingency. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 346; Modernist spatial form unifies parts into a whole while postmodern spatialization disperses totality — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 910; Meaning in postmodern installations shifts as each element recontextualizes the others — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 393
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Industrial-era art loses its concrete human center as elements disperse into contingency. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 346; Modernist spatial form unifies parts into a whole while postmodern spatialization disperses totality — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 910; Meaning in postmodern installations shifts as each element recontextualizes the others — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 393

Broader Connections

• Modernist spatial form unifies parts into a whole while postmodern spatialization disperses totality #corroborates (0.95) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 910