The link between nature and memory is economic, not metaphysical

Evidence

Nature is related to memory not for metaphysical reasons but because it throws up the concept and the image of an older mode of agricultural production that you can repress, dimly remember, or nostalgically recover in moments of danger and vulnerability. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 780

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges the Romantic/apolitical reading of nature that the reader may hold from other sources; connects to the ‘style as economy’s way of appearing’ through-line.
• ADDENDUM: Resonates with ‘Grafting & Growth’ — the idea that nature carries an older mode of production as its meaning slides toward the trees-as-infrastructure argument that natural imagery encodes economic history.
• DEFINE: Offers a precise redefinition of the nature-memory link as economic rather than timeless-metaphysical.