A review by noahregained
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson

3.0

maybe I haven't read Adorno in a minute, but there are some really staggeringly unhelpful sentences in this joint. "The postmodern thus invites us to indulge a somber mockery of historicity in general, wherein the effort at self-consciousness with which our own situation somehow completes the act of historical understanding, repeats itself drearily as in the worst kind of dreams, and juxtaposes, to its own pertinent philosophical repudiation of the very concept of self-consciousness, a grotesque carnival of the latter's various replays."

I'm starting to think that you can sensibly pull any statement about anything from the maelstrom that gets called the "postmodernist debate."