So-called postmodern changes merely accentuate long-standing modern Western tendencies

Evidence

I don’t think that what Berman is describing is a new epoch but rather the accentuation of certain important tendencies in the culture of the overdeveloped “West” which, if we understand the complex histories of modernism properly, have been in play in a highly uneven way since modernism emerged. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 716

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts the epochal break claim of postmodernists like Lyotard and Jameson; echoes Braudel’s longue durée periodization. — connects to: Postmodernism’s defining move is proclaiming a radical break in Western civilization — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 126; So-called postmodern trends merely continue capitalist processes begun under modernism — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 574; Fordist modernity stabilized its economy to enable change while flexible postmodernism reverses this — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 2102 (+1 more)