Postmodernism stopped being a cultural tendency and became all of culture

Evidence

MF: Well, as I say in the book, in many ways what I’m calling “capitalist realism” can be contained under the rubric of Jameson’s theorisation of postmodernism. Yet the very persistence and ubiquity of the processes that Jameson identifies — the destruction of a sense of history, the supersession of novelty by pastiche — meant that they have changed in kind. Postmodernism is now no longer a tendency in culture; it has subsumed practically all culture. Capitalist realism, you might say, is what happens when postmodernism is naturalised. After all, we’ve now got a generation of young adults who have known nothing but global capitalism and who are accustomed to culture being pastiche and recapitulation. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2069

Categorization

• DEFINE: Fisher distinguishes capitalist realism from Jameson’s postmodernism by the shift from tendency to naturalised totality.
• XREF: connects to: Postmodernism marks a fundamental mutation of culture’s social function — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 156; Postmodernism erases the high culture versus mass culture boundary. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 38; Postmodernism abolishes the inside-outside distinction that modernism still presupposed — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 259 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodernism abolishes the inside-outside distinction that modernism still presupposed #corroborates (0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 259
• Postmodernism marks a fundamental mutation of culture’s social function #expands (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 156
• Postmodernism is a tendency within late modernism, not its successor #complicates (0.78) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 236
• Postmodern theory holds that no one escapes culture’s ideological constructions #corroborates (0.76) — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 228
• Postmodernism erases the high culture versus mass culture boundary. #expands (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 38
• Postmodernity may be evolving toward its own dissolution #complicates (0.74) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 2224