The account of postmodernism originally lacked any social agency

Evidence

In particular I have tried to remedy what (rightly) struck some readers as a crucial missing component of the program essay, namely, the absence of any discussion of “agency,” or the lack of what I prefer to call, following old Plekhanov, any “social equivalent” for this seemingly disembodied cultural logic. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 24

Categorization

• DEFINE: Key concept ‘social equivalent’ (from Plekhanov) — the missing ‘who’ behind a disembodied cultural logic. Central to the reader’s attempt to map their own position in the world system.
• XREF: connects to: Post-structuralist philosophy rejected lived experience and active human subjects — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 88; Lyotard abandoned revolutionary socialism before writing The Postmodern Condition — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 67; Jameson describes postmodern life but rarely calibrates the political effects of movements — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 301