Shared oppression under corporate power fails to produce solidarity in postmodern imagination

Evidence

The strongest social bond between Deckard and the replicants in revolt - the fact’ that they are both controlled and enslaved by a dominant corporate power - never generates the slightest hint that a coalition of the oppressed might be forged between them. While Tyrell’s eyes are indeed torn out during his killing, this is an individual rather than a class act of rage. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1981

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Harvey’s observation that the film’s shared-enslavement bond yields no coalition is a sharp claim about postmodernity’s fragmentation of class politics — dense enough to sit with.
• XREF: connects to: Postmodernist rejection of systems shrinks resistance to the personal and micro — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 375; Common oppression does not necessarily unify the oppressed — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 335; Teasing builds solidarity on shared consumption, not shared citizenship — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 793 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Common oppression does not necessarily unify the oppressed #corroborates (0.90) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 335
• Postmodernist rejection of systems shrinks resistance to the personal and micro #expands (0.85) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 375