It seems telling to me that the content of particular forms of micro-genre, which have become coupled to 'irrational' forms of politics, often express a nostalgia not for modernity or pre-modernity, but for the vertigo-inducing postmodernity that Jameson descrbes
You seem to shoot yourself in the foot insofar as this very question can be posed at a much deeper level. What is actually you are defending here re postmodernism? The only answer is that all such subjects require historical self-consciousness which is a matter of dialectics.
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Not to speak for Rob, but I take the postmodern condition as Harvey did, a historical condition, w/ a logic that is expressive of a 'mutation' in the capitalist mode of production-but beneath this mutation is a profound continuity in the unfolding of essential capitalist dynamics
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This opens up space to recognize that the postmodern cannot be easily slotted into a pure and linear successive history, but what I think Harvery misses is the central factor of stagnation alongside the spatial, temporal, technical and class-based changes...
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