Total universalization of capitalism erases the concept of the system itself

Evidence

If Postmodernism, as an enlarged third stage of classical capitalism, is a purer and more homogeneous expression of classical capitalism, from which many of the hitherto surviving enclaves of socioeconomic difference have been effaced (by way of their colonization and absorption by the commodity form), then it makes sense to suggest that the waning of our sense of history, and more particularly our resistance to globalizing or totalizing concepts like that of the mode of production itself, are a function of precisely that universalization of capitalism. Where everything is henceforth systemic the very notion of a system seems to lose its reason for being, returning only by way of a “return of the repressed” in the more nightmarish forms of 406 the “total system” fantasized by Weber or Foucault or the 1984 people. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 865

Categorization

• QUESTION: This is the crux of the reader’s falsifiability test: if ‘where everything is systemic the notion of a system loses its reason for being’ — then is the cultural-dominant thesis self-undermining, unfalsifiable, or only verifiable from a position postmodernity has erased?
• DEFINE: Effectively defines ‘waning of affect’/‘repression of conceptuality’ by giving its mechanism: universal commodification effaces difference, so totalizing concepts have nothing to bite on.
• DEEPTHINKING: This is the chapter’s pivot — the mechanism by which postmodernism explains away the very standpoint from which it could be theorized. Resists one-sentence summary; the reader will sit with the self-refutation problem for days.
• XREF: Ties to the reader’s stated goal of testing whether ‘cultural dominant’ is falsifiable, and echoes Lyotard’s incredulity toward metanarratives from the same moment of theory. — connects to: Monopoly capitalism destroys the very notion of property while retaining its form; Capital itself, mutated into cloud capital, has killed capitalism — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 12; Labels like platform capitalism obscure today’s actual systemic transformation. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 457 (+4 more)