# Quote — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism: or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

> Theories of the postmodern - whether celebratory or couched in the language of moral revulsion and denunciation - bear a strong family resemblance to all those more ambitious sociological generalizations which, at much the same time, bring us the news of the arrival and inauguration of a whole new type of society, most famously baptized "postindustrial society"(Daniel Bell) but often also designated consumer society, media society, information society, electronic society, or high tech and the like. Such theories have the obvious ideological mission of demonstrating, to their own relief, that the new social formation in question no longer obeys the laws of classical capitalism, namely, the primacy of industrial production and the omnipresence of class struggle.

- Author: [Fredric Jameson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fredric-jameson.md)
- Book: [Postmodernism: or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fredric-jameson/postmodernism-or-the-cultural-logic-of-late-capitalism.md)
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