Carolina QuotesPostmodernism is what you have when the modernization process is complete and nature is gone for good. It is a more fully human world than the older one, but one in which "culture" has become a veritable "second nature."
Fredric Jameson Carolinian
Source
Introduction
- work
- Postmodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991)
- year
- 1991
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“Postmodernism is what you have when the modernization proces…” Fredric Jameson. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-576B6DF49E. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/576b6df49e
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