Immediacy, or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism

Abstract

Our historical metabolism has undergone a serious mutation: the organs with which we register time can handle only smaller and smaller, and more and more immediate, empirical segments; the schematism of our transcendental historical imagination encompasses less and less material, and can process only stories short enough to be verifiable via television.The larger, more abstract thoughts . . .fall outside the apparatus; they may be true but are no longer representable -it is worse than old-fashioned to evoke them, rather a kind of blunder is involved.-Fredric Jameson, Late Marxism: Adorno, or The Persistence of the Dialectic