Studying the postmodern inadvertently reveals more about the modern than about postmodernism

Evidence

So it is that, rigorously conducted, an inquiry into this or that feature of the postmodern will end up telling us little of value about Postmodernism itself, but against its own will and quite unintentionally a great deal about the modern proper, and perhaps the converse will also turn out to be true, even though the two were never to have been thought of as symmetrical opposites in the first place. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 201

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The modern’s present-absolute nature generates recurring postmodern markers — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 28; Realist and modernist traces persist within postmodern culture. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 13; Two further positions reject the modern-postmodern break, dissolving postmodernism into modernism — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 185 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The modern’s present-absolute nature generates recurring postmodern markers — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 28; Realist and modernist traces persist within postmodern culture. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 13; Two further positions reject the modern-postmodern break, dissolving postmodernism into modernism — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 185 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodernism’s presentism forecloses the historical understanding needed to explain it #complicates (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 725