Structure is a historical stage of group self-making, not a timeless property.

Evidence

Structure is not a timeless characteristic of all groups, but rather a phenomenon characteristic of a single moment of a group’s historical development. It is, in this sense, the reverse of the practico-inert: where there man had to make himself inert in order to work on the objects around him, where he lost himself as freedom in order to fulfill the requirements of the object, here the group gives itself objective being from the inside, in order to be able to work on itself. Thus structure enables the group to become not only self-causing, but self-repairing, in its persistence of being, that is, in its renewed adaptation to changing situations; but at the same time, of course, it marks the ultimate, implicit limits of that development and that adjustment. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 532

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines structure dialectically as the group-made-inert mirror-image of the practico-inert, answering how structure differs from mere being.
• XREF: The idea that structural form is self-repairing yet marks ultimate limits resonates with Adorno’s negative dialectics — form as both condition and cage. — connects to: Ingroup membership is a shifting, context-dependent subjective construction, not a fixed category.; Structure and superstructure connect only through historically specific mechanisms, not automatic correspondence. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 626; Feudalism is an abstract structure surpassed by individual projects, not the sum of relations. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1228 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Ingroup membership is a shifting, context-dependent subjective construction, not a fixed category. #complicates (0.85)
• Structure and superstructure connect only through historically specific mechanisms, not automatic correspondence. #expands (0.82) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 626
• Feudalism is an abstract structure surpassed by individual projects, not the sum of relations. #complicates (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1228
• A social formation is a complex unity structured in dominance, not an expressive totality. #complicates (0.80)
• The desire to be a self and a brand is historically learned, not innate #exemplifies (0.80) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 106
• The Freudian unconscious is a historical product of disciplinary society, not a timeless formation. #exemplifies (0.78) — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 91
• Group identities are formed negatively as ‘not-barbarian’ rather than positively. #complicates (0.78) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 154
• Base and superstructure relate through non-immediate, relative autonomy rather than direct correspondence #complicates (0.78) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 509
• Bodies are historically constructed objects, not fixed essences #exemplifies (0.78)
• History’s unity is a developing process, not a presupposition. #expands (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 812
• Modern subjectivity is a constructed architectural effect, not a natural condition #exemplifies (0.75) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 202