Postmodern space is a real third expansion of global capitalism.

Evidence

The argument for a certain authenticity in these otherwise patently ideological productions depends on the prior proposition that what we have been calling postmodern (or multinational) space is not merely a cultural ideology or fantasy but has genuine historical (and socioeconomic) reality as a third great original expansion of capitalism around the globe (after the earlier expansions of the national market and the older imperialist system, which each had their own cultural specificity and generated new types of space appropriate to their dynamics). — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 160

Categorization

• QUESTION: This is the falsifiable core the reader wants to test — can ‘third expansion of capitalism’ be empirically confirmed or refuted?
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s goal of testing whether the cultural-dominant thesis is falsifiable; also links forward to world-systems theory (Wallerstein).