Frederic Jameson Criticism Of Postmodernism

Sees postmodernism as empty and trapped in circular references (never-ending arguments).

Nothing more than a series of self-referential 'jokes' which have no deeper meaning or purpose. (Ironically Postmodernists don't disagree but use his criticism as their purpose, by not having a purpose, that in itself is the purpose creating the paradoxical nature of Postmodernism)

For Jameson, literary and cultural output has more purpose than postmodernism and therefore remains a modernist in a world increasingly dominated by postmodern culture.

Contrasting this however, Jameson sees reason for the present generations to express themselves through postmodernity due to them being the product of such a heavily globalised, multinational dominated economy, which carries the multinational media industry as one of its main branches. By the media being everywhere, all the time bombarding the generation, explains why postmodernists’ merging of all discourse into an undifferentiated whole "there no longer does seem to be any organic relationship between the American history we learn from schoolbooks and the lived experience of the current, multinational, high-rise, stagflated city of the newspapers and of our own everyday life” (p.22 Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 1991.)