Quotes from Frederic Jameson

The Prison-House of Language

In modernism, as I will try to show later on, some residual zones of "nature" or "being" of the old, the older, the archaic, still subsist; culture can still do something to that nature and work at transforming that "referent." Postmodernism is what you have when the modernization process is complete and nature is gone for good.

We are...so far removed from the realities of production and work that we inhabit a dream world of artificial stimuli and televised experience.