Systematizing the unsystematic can force a historical way of thinking

Evidence

The rhetorical strategy of the preceding pages has involved an experiment, namely, the attempt to see whether by systematizing something that is resolutely unsystematic, and historicizing something that is resolutely ahistorical, one couldn’t outflank it and force a historical way at least of thinking about that. “We have to name the system”: this high point of the sixties finds an unexpected revival in the Postmodernism debate. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 894

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Harvey endorses a becoming-oriented rather than being-oriented historical stance — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 2234; Formal concepts retain traces of the historical phenomena that produced them — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 679; Society itself was historically constructed through calculability. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 372 (+2 more)