The postmodern epoch erases nature and all residual archaic features from human experience

Evidence

Implicit in all this is the thud of the predictable second shoe, namely, the effacement of Nature, and its precapitalist agricultures, from the postmodern, the essential homogenization of a social space and experience now uniformly modernized and mechanized (where the generation gap passes between the models of the products rather than between the ecologies of their users), and the triumphant achievement of the kind of standardization and conformity feared and fantasized in the 1950s but now clearly no longer a problem for the people successfully molded by it (and who can no longer even recognize or thematize it as such). This is why we were led earlier to define modernism as the experience and the result of incomplete modernization, and to suggest that the postmodern begins to make its appearance wherever the modernization process no longer has archaic features and obstacles to overcome and has triumphantly implanted its own autonomous logic (for which, of course, at that point the word modernization becomes a misnomer, since everything is already “modern”). — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 781

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core definition of modernism vs postmodernism pivot: modernism = incomplete modernization, postmodern = modernization with nothing left to overcome.
• XREF: This ‘effacement of nature’ thesis connects to the reader’s project of mapping his own position and to Parable of the Sower’s ecologically collapsed world. — connects to: Modern panic over comprehensible existence parallels prehistoric fear of nature; Technological transformation of physical nature erases the dimension of contradiction in lived reality — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 305