Poststructuralist critiques of authenticity form a shared tradition with anti-gold arguments.

Evidence

Stepping back from the immediacy of the welter of period documents through which he leads us, it will not be difficult to grasp a family likeness between Michaels’s local diagnoses and a range of now characteristic poststructural denunciations of the ideologies of nature and the “authentic.” — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 451

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Barthes’s Mythologies, MacCannell’s The Tourist, and Baudrillard’s critique of need and use value — a lineage I already know partly. — connects to: Epistemological critique of dominant discourse can be mounted from within any tradition. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 852; Poststructuralism rejects the modernist bond between signified and signifier. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 340
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Epistemological critique of dominant discourse can be mounted from within any tradition. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 852; Poststructuralism rejects the modernist bond between signified and signifier. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 340