Structuralism’s real value lay in making homologies, not in the concept of structure.

Evidence

My own sense is that the influence of “structuralism” (and the extraordinary richness of new analyses that it opened up) is rather to be attributed to the possibility of making homologies than to the operative pretext — the concept of structure — which was its philosophical presupposition and its working fiction (or ideology). — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 430

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks to the reader’s push on whether the ‘cultural dominant’ thesis is something you adopt or refuse — analogous distinction between operative pretext and working value. — connects to: Structural interpretation reads the gaps rather than the unified whole — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1394; A paradigm’s value is judged by usefulness relative to alternatives, not completeness.; Structuralism permits thinking structure apart from relations between people. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 198 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Structural interpretation reads the gaps rather than the unified whole — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1394; A paradigm’s value is judged by usefulness relative to alternatives, not completeness.; Structuralism permits thinking structure apart from relations between people. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 198 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Structuralism permits thinking structure apart from relations between people. #complicates (0.74) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 198
• Base and superstructure relate through non-immediate, relative autonomy rather than direct correspondence #complicates (0.72) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 509