The first affirmative postmodern elements were assembled yet never crystallized

Evidence

It was here, then, that the elements for an affirmative conception of the postmodern were first assembled. In Olson, an aesthetic theory was linked to a prophetic history, with an agenda allying poetic innovation with political revolution in the classic tradition of the avant-gardes of pre-war Europe. The continuity with the original Stimmung of modernism, in an electric sense of the present as fraught with a momentous future, is striking. But no commensurate doctrine crystallized. — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 25

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes that the earliest ‘postmodern’ was affirmative and avant-gardist, not the pejorative or ironic sense that later dominated — a key baseline for Jameson’s periodization.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader Jameson/periodization debate: the shift from affirmative to pejorative then reactionary uses is the spine of the dispute. — connects to: Postmodern fragments become logos with no identifiable product behind them — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 233; The postmodern concept cannot be disproved because its voices are radically separated — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 799

Broader Connections

• Postmodern fragments become logos with no identifiable product behind them #expands (0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 233
• The postmodern concept cannot be disproved because its voices are radically separated #complicates (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 799