Practice question · Multiple choice
Fredric Jameson and David Harvey treat postmodern phenomena as a cultural style rather than an epochal break. What follows from their framework for how sociologists should study contemporary culture?
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- Does Jameson's account treat cultural forms as completely detached from economic systems or bound to them?
- How does viewing postmodernism as a logic of late capitalism differ from Lyotard's claim of an epochal rupture?
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D. Cultural shifts reflect developments in global capitalist dynamics
Why
Treating postmodernism as late capitalism's cultural logic grounds cultural changes in political economy rather than treating them as autonomous ruptures. Postmodernity claims an absolute break; Harvey and Jameson instead diagnose a structural continuation of capital accumulation.
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