Three-quarters of humanity have not entered the era of ‘the real’ that collapse-discourse assumes

Evidence

Let’s take the postmodernist argument about the so-called collapse or implosion of “the real.” Three-quarters of the human race have not yet entered the era of what we are pleased to call “the real.” — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 718

Categorization

• QUESTION: Hall’s global-context objection—that postmodern collapse presumes a Western media-saturated reality—is worth chasing for how it reframes ‘post-truth’ debates today.
• SEED: Angle: claims of ‘post-truth’ collapse are a privileged Western diagnosis that ignores the billions never inside Western realism at all.
• XREF: Connects to Hall’s project of provincializing ‘the West’ and to Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Provincializing Europe.