Postmodern subjectivity loses active historical consciousness and lives in a perpetual present.

Evidence

Among the traits of the new subjectivity, in fact, was the loss of any active sense of history, either as hope or memory. The charged sense of the past — as either ague-bed of repressive traditions, or reservoir of thwarted dreams; and heightened expectancy of the future — as potential cataclysm or transfiguration — which had characterized modernism, was gone. At best, fading back into a perpetual present, retro-styles and images proliferated as surrogates of the temporal. — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 152

Categorization

• DEFINE: Precisely characterizes Jameson’s account of the postmodern ‘loss of historicity’ as distinct from modernism’s charged past/future orientation.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s earlier reading on silence and time — the flattening of temporal depth in postmodern subjectivity parallels the erasure of signal/keynote distinctions in the lo-fi soundscape. — connects to: Postmodernity is defined by a forgotten capacity for historical thought — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 8; Belief in a ‘postmodern condition’ is American historical amnesia.; Postmodern city space lost its modernist sense of place and situatedness. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 308 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodernity is defined by a forgotten capacity for historical thought #corroborates (0.90) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 8
• Belief in a ‘postmodern condition’ is American historical amnesia. #responds-to (0.85)
• Postmodernism’s presentism forecloses the historical understanding needed to explain it #expands (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 725
• Extreme postmodernism erases historical specificity into a millennia-old cultural constant #expands (0.82) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 129
• Claims of a unified postmodern condition stem from American cultural amnesia favoring novelty #responds-to (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 718
• Modernity names the felt conviction of newness that postmodernity has lost. #expands (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 676
• Postmodernism’s claim of historical closure is itself an ideological eternalizing move. #complicates (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 720
• Postmodern city space lost its modernist sense of place and situatedness. #expands (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 308
• Daily life changes under postmodernity must be deduced after the fact rather than experienced #expands (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 752
• Capitalism failed to strip social life of historical consciousness embedded in culture #contradicts (0.75)