Technically advanced art can only achieve politically mediated effects

Evidence

But although in the realm of culture the historian can no doubt show a parallelism between specific technical advances in a given art and the general development of the economy as a whole, it is difficult to see how a technically advanced and difficult work of art can have anything but a “mediated” effect politically. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 171

Categorization

• XREF: Jameson’s pushing on Benjamin’s base/superstructure parallelism echoes Adorno’s skepticism and prefigures later aesthetic-political debates. — connects to: Benjamin theorized progressive art as technically advanced form, not political content — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 171; Aesthetics of immediacy cannot build the political will needed for change — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 377; Avant-garde art depends on concrete political conditions, not just aesthetic logic — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 243 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Avant-garde art depends on concrete political conditions, not just aesthetic logic #expands (0.85) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 243
• Aesthetics of immediacy cannot build the political will needed for change #corroborates (0.82) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 377
• Political art achieves concreteness through immediate suffering rather than abstract production #qualifies (0.75)
• Political art today must invent radically new forms to represent global capital #expands (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 173