Carolina QuotesThe last few years have been marked by an inverted millenarianism in which premonition of the future, catastrophic or redemptive, have been replaced by senses of the end of this or that (the end of ideology, art, or social class; the "crisis" of Leninism, social democracy, or the welfare state, etc., etc.,); taken together, all of these perhaps constitute what is increasing called postmodernism.
Fredric Jameson Carolinian
Source
Chapter One: The Cultural Logic Of Late Capitalism
- work
- Postmodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991)
- year
- 1991
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“The last few years have been marked by an inverted millenari…” Fredric Jameson. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-79A4C7CE20. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/79a4c7ce20
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