There is some agreement that the older modernism functioned against its society in ways which are variously described as critical, negative, contestatory, subversive, oppositional and the like. 
Can anything of this sort be affirmed about post-modernism and its social moment? We have seen that there is a way in which post-modernism replicates or reproduces--reinforces--the logic of consumer capitalism; the more significant question is whether there is also a way in which it resists that logic.
Fredric Jameson, The Anti-Aesthetic
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