Postmodernism’s transgressive features have been absorbed into official Western public culture.

Evidence

As for the postmodern revolt against all that, however, it must equally be stressed that its own offensive features — from obscurity and sexually explicit material to psychological squalor and overt expressions of social and political defiance, which transcend anything that might have been imagined at the most extreme moments of high modernism — no longer scandalize anyone and are not only received with the greatest complacency but have themselves become institutionalized and are at one with the official or public culture of Western society. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 43

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s existing project on moral panics and ‘immodesty’ — the machinery of scandal that earlier eras met with outrage is now neutralized by institutionalization. — connects to: Postmodernism’s high-low cultural fusion is populist, unlike avant-garde transgression. — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 166
• QUESTION: If transgression is now institutional, has postmodernism exhausted its critical function? Feeds the falsifiability push.