The wrapper becomes its own category rather than a middle term

Evidence

But if this is so, then we find ourselves obliged to reorganize MacraeGibson’s tripartite scheme. His first category — the remnants of traditional suburban space — we retain as such, to be dealt with later. If, however, the wrapper — cube and slab — takes on a life of its own here, as the visible agent of architectural transformation-in-course, then it must be assigned category status in its own right, while Macrae-Gibson’s final two types of space — the older “major spaces” along with the new “entry” and kitchen spaces — will be amalgamated as the joint results of the intersection of the first two categories, of the intervention of the “wrapper” into the traditional house. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 296

Categorization

• QUESTION: Jameson revises another critic’s scheme to serve his argument — worth noting how he reorganizes evidence to fit the cultural-dominant thesis.
• XREF: connects to: Negating a middle category yields a comparison group too heterogeneous to interpret — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts and Measurement, 1164; A variable’s absence only counts as a cause when it names a real category — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts: A User’s Guide, 1184; The category of literature is ambiguously constructed rather than given (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Negating a middle category yields a comparison group too heterogeneous to interpret — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts and Measurement, 1164; A variable’s absence only counts as a cause when it names a real category — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts: A User’s Guide, 1184; The category of literature is ambiguously constructed rather than given (+2 more)