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

> Utopia is a spatial matter that might be thought to know potential change in fortunes in so spatialized a culture as the postmodern; but if this last is a dehistoricized and dehistorizing as I some times claim here, the synaptic chain that might lead the Utopian impulse to expression becomes harder to localize. Utopian representations knew an extraordinarily revival in the 1960's; if postmodernism is the substitute for the sixties and the compensation for their political failure, the question of Utopia would seem to be a crucial test of what is left of our capacity to imagine change at all.

- 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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