The postmodern aesthetic of hybridity rendered the manifesto obsolete

Evidence

For the universe of the postmodern is not one of delimitation, but intermixture —celebrating the cross-over, the hybrid, the pot-pourri. In this climate, the manifesto becomes outdated, a relic of an assertive purism at variance with the spirit of the age. — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 239

Categorization

• DEFINE: Characterizes the postmodern aesthetic as intermixture against the modernist stance of delimitation.
• XREF: The death of the manifesto as a genre connects to the decline of avant-garde collectivity — ties to earlier sections on modernism’s manifesto culture. — connects to: Postmodern manifestos secretly still depend on the modernist tropes they reject — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 312; Postmodern collaboration abandons the manifesto-driven vanguard project entirely — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 390

Broader Connections

• Postmodern manifestos secretly still depend on the modernist tropes they reject #complicates (0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 312
• Postmodern collaboration abandons the manifesto-driven vanguard project entirely #complicates (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 390