Postmodernism cannot be understood apart from late capitalism’s economic structure

Evidence

Presupposed in what follows, of course, is a correlation between the transition from the modern to the postmodern, and that economic or systemic transformation of an older monopoly capitalism (the so-called moment of imperialism) into its new multinational and hightech mutation. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 374

Categorization

• XREF: This is the load-bearing periodization claim the reader wants to test for falsifiability. — connects to: So-called postmodern trends merely continue capitalist processes begun under modernism — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 574; Postmodern architecture rejected utopian planning in favor of market-driven spontaneity — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 59; Jameson grounded postmodernity in identifiable features of multinational capitalism as of the early eighties. — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 150 (+8 more)