Summary Of "Postmodernity" By Fredric Jameson - UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES - E-book - ePub

We have summarized the essential of this book by the author. POSTMODERNITYPostmodernism and consumer societyThe concept of Postmodernism is not universally accepted. Most postmodernists appear as specific reactions against the established forms of higher Modernism: against this or that Modernism that dominates in painting, or music, etc. This makes it difficult to describe Postmodernism as a coherent totality, because its unity does not exist in itself, but in the same Modernism that it tries to displace.
Another characteristic of Postmodernism is that there seem to be no clear boundaries between its various representatives. For example, there is no clear boundary between mass culture and higher culture. It is also remarkable the disappearance of contours between the categories of gender and discourse, and their fusion in the so-called "contemporary theory". A few decades ago there was a technical discourse of professional philosophy (Sartre's great systems, phenomenology, analytical philosophy, etc.) in which it was still possible to differentiate the multiple disciplines: for example, to differentiate sociology from political science, or literary criticism.
On the contrary, today, we have a type of writing called simply "theory", which is the totality of the things that we have named or none of them at the same time.