Postmodernity is defined by a forgotten capacity for historical thought

Evidence

It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 8

Categorization

• DEFINE: A compact definition of the postmodern as paradoxical self-historicizing.
• XREF: connects to: Postmodernism discourse must be dated to its specific historical conjuncture — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 597; Postmodern subjectivity loses active historical consciousness and lives in a perpetual present. — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 152; Postmodernism is best treated as a historical condition, not an ideas set. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 32