Postmodernist thought arises from the new technologies of knowledge communication in advanced capitalism.

Evidence

Most postmodernist thinkers are fascinated by the new possibilities for information and knowledge production, analysis, and transfer. Lyotard (1984), for example, firmly locates his arguments in the context of new technologies of communication and, drawing upon Bell’s and Touraine’s theses of the passage to a ‘postindustrial’ information-based society, situates the rise of postmodern thought in the heart of what he sees as a dramatic social and political transition in the languages of communication in advanced capitalist societies. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 339

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the rival-periodization comparison with Bell’s and Touraine’s postindustrial theses. — connects to: New Times connected postmodern themes to advanced capitalist economy debates — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 261; Postmodernism cannot be understood apart from late capitalism’s economic structure — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 374; The modern-to-postmodern shift correlates with capitalism’s transformation from monopoly to multinational — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 374 (+5 more)
• QUESTION: Is Harvey endorsing the technological-causation story or setting it up to critique?

Broader Connections

• Postmodernism cannot be understood apart from late capitalism’s economic structure #corroborates (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 374
• New Times connected postmodern themes to advanced capitalist economy debates #expands (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 261
• Technology’s cultural effects are mediated by late capitalism not deterministically #qualifies (0.80) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 410
• New Times linked postmodernism with radical economic and cultural analysis #expands (0.80)
• Williams read postmodernism as a mask for deeper capitalist cultural transformations #corroborates (0.80) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 2202
• The modern-to-postmodern shift correlates with capitalism’s transformation from monopoly to multinational #qualifies (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 374
• So-called postmodern trends merely continue capitalist processes begun under modernism #complicates (0.75) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 574