The utopian ideal of deconstructive existence may already be socially realized as postmodernism

Evidence

Yet what is worth asking today about this seemingly Utopian and unrealizable vision of an authentic or a “textualized” existence in full Postmodernism is whether it has not already in some sense become socially realized, and whether it may not very precisely be one of the transformations of everyday life and of the psychic subject designated by the term postmodern. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 732

Categorization

• SEED: A sharp angle: what everyday activities (scrolling feeds, ironic self-narration) already live out the Sartrean/anti-transcendent ideal — turning theory’s utopia into the status quo.
• QUESTION: This is the pivot toward falsifiability of ‘cultural dominant’ — if a philosophical ideal simply IS already realized, then postmodernism as diagnosis vs. as lifestyle collapses. Worth chasing.
• XREF: connects to: Deconstruction necessarily operates within the metaphysics it contests; Utopian visions historically served as critical distance rather than action blueprints — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 840; Fully describing utopia would betray it because it is a becoming, not a being — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1539 (+2 more)