Jameson

materials they no longer simply 'quote' as a Joyce or a Mahler might have done, but incorporate into their very substance.  (seems wrong to me)

I have rather meant to offer a periodizing hypothesis, and that at a moment in which the very conception of historical periodization has come to seem most problematical indeed.

it seems to me essential to grasp postmodernism not as a style but rather as a cultural dominant

aesthetic production today has become integrated into commodity production general.

(modernism is read as a depth model, hermeneutics)

depth is replaced by surface, or by multiple surfaces

there is no longer a self present to do the feeling

Pastiche is, like parody, the imitation of a peculiar or unique, idiosyncratic style, the wearing of a linguistic mask, speech in a dead language. But it is a neutral practice of such mimicry, without any of parody's ulterior motives, amputated of the satiric impulse...Pastiche is thus blank parody.

the random cannibalization of all the styles of the past, the play of random stylistic allusion

libidinal historicism...complacent eclecticism 18

approached the 'past' through stylistic connotation, conveying 'pastness'

it is organized systematically and formally to short-circuit an older type of social and historical interpretation which it perpetually holds out and withdraws. 23

the vivid perception of radical difference is in and of itself a new mode of rasping what used to be called relationship: something of which the word collage is still only a very feeble name 31

a degraded attempt...to think the impossible totality of the contemporary world system. 38

My implication is that we ourselves, the human subject who happen into this new space, have no kept pace with that evolution...an imperative to grow new organs 38-9

catastrophe and progress all together 47 (on capital)

we must go on to affirm that the dissolution of an autonomous sphere of culture is rather to be imaged in terms of an explosion: a prodigious expansion of culture throughout the social realm 48

forms of cultural resistance and guerrilla warfare but also even overly political interventions...are all somehow secretly disarmed and reabsorbed by a system 49

peculiar new forms of realism...mimesis of reality 49

the new political art...will have to hold to the truth of postmodernism...the world space of multinational capital...global cognitive mapping 54