Reference problems are symptoms of historical transformation, not mere philosophical puzzles

Evidence

To raise the issue, for example, of the fate of the “referent” in contemporary culture and thought is not the same thing as to assert some older theory of reference or to repudiate all the new theoretical problems in advance. On the contrary, such problems are retained and endorsed, with the proviso that they are not only interesting problems in their own right but also, at the same time, symptoms of a historical transformation. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 251

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s key idea that aesthetic/ideational form is the economy’s way of appearing — a cultural problem treated as a symptom of historical change. — connects to: Historical change forces theorists to invent new, more concrete concepts; Formal concepts retain traces of the historical phenomena that produced them — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 679; Complex historical causes must be decomposed into independently testable problems — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 193
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Historical change forces theorists to invent new, more concrete concepts; Formal concepts retain traces of the historical phenomena that produced them — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 679; Complex historical causes must be decomposed into independently testable problems — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 193