Postmodernism is the first global cultural style of specifically North American origin.

Evidence

Add to this the unavoidable representational problem that there is no “late capitalism in general” but only this or that specific national form of the thing, and non-North American readers will inevitably deplore the Americanocentrism of my own particular account, which is justified only to the degree that it was the brief “American century” (1945-73) that constituted the hothouse, or forcing ground, of the new system, while the development of the cultural forms of Postmodernism may be said to be the first specifically North American global style. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 28

Categorization

• QUESTION: If postmodemism is the first ‘North American global style’, what does that imply for the reader’s aim to certify their own cognitive position in the world system — is the reader’s own map already an export of this style?
• XREF: Pairs with the reader’s stated goal of a cognitive map of their own position in the world system — this passage fixes the map’s origin point.