Postmodernist rejection of systems shrinks resistance to the personal and micro
Evidence
All such systems are rejected, in the characteristic postmodernist way, so that resistance can always only be personal, micro, and shared only by a small, determinate number of individuals who happen, perchance, to come together, outside the so-called ‘grand narratives’ of class, gender, nation. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 375
Categorization
- XREF: The claim that rejecting grand narratives produces only micro, personal resistance parallels the tension in Things Fall Apart between the individual and the community’s fate — but here the anti-collective move is the critique. Also resonates with my notes on communication technologies shaping collective agency. — connects to: Shared oppression under corporate power fails to produce solidarity in postmodern imagination — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1981; The personal is political inverted into the political is personal as feminism went postmodern — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 865