Spatial mapping incapacity cripples political as much as urban experience.

Evidence

A secondary premise must, however, also be argued — namely, that the incapacity to map spatially is as crippling to political experience as the analogous incapacity to map spatially is for urban experience. It follows that an aesthetic of cognitive mapping in this sense is an integral part of any socialist political project. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 890

Categorization

• SEED: Potential essay angle: what it concretely feels like to be unable to map one’s own position in global class structure, with modern examples.
• XREF: connects to: Fixed spatial representations inevitably distort the fluid practical spaces they depict — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1608; Urban alienation grows with the mental unmappability of city space — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 889; Postmodern city space lost its modernist sense of place and situatedness. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 308 (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Fixed spatial representations inevitably distort the fluid practical spaces they depict — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1608; Urban alienation grows with the mental unmappability of city space — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 889; Postmodern city space lost its modernist sense of place and situatedness. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 308 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Urban alienation grows with the mental unmappability of city space #expands (0.95) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 889
• Spatial practices cannot be read apart from social context #complicates (0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1402