Space’s aesthetic formulation mediates between cognition and sociopolitical consequences

Evidence

The attempt to think through such changes from the perspective of the superstructure seems finally to produce social models or world visions of an essentially religious kind. At any rate, the very concept of space here demonstrates its supremely mediatory function, in the way in which its aesthetic formulation begins at once to entail cognitive consequences on the one hand and sociopolitical consequences on the other. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 270

Categorization

• DEFINE: Space as ‘supremely mediatory’ concept is a key Jameson framework term useful for the reader’s cognitive map.
• XREF: connects to: When aesthetic judgment favors space over time, spatial practices dominate social action. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1300; Aerial photographs of bulldozed subdivisions became a core visual argument for open-space activists — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 572; Space is not freedom but permanent construction through contested social interactions (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: When aesthetic judgment favors space over time, spatial practices dominate social action. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1300; Aerial photographs of bulldozed subdivisions became a core visual argument for open-space activists — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 572; Space is not freedom but permanent construction through contested social interactions (+5 more)