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What is the concept of fredric jameson's 'depthlessness'?
What is the concept of Fredric Jameson's 'Depthlessness'?
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Jameson contrasts this postmodern situation with the modernist situation that has been superceded. Whereas modernism still believed in "some residual zones of 'nature' or 'being,' of the old, the older, the archaic" and still believed that one could "do something to that nature and work at transforming that 'referent'", postmodernism has lost a sense of any distinction between the Real and Culture. For Jameson, postmodernity amounts to "an immense dilation of [culture's] sphere (the sphere of commodities), an immense and historically original acculturation of the Real". Whereas "modernism was still minimally and tendentially the critique of the commodity and the effort to make it transcend itself," postmodernism "is the consumption of sheer commodification as a process". That apparent victory of commodification over all spheres of life marks postmodernity's reliance on the "cultural logic of late capitalism."
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Fredric Jameson called postmodern culture as one of “depthlessness” and as the cultural logic of late capitalism. Jameson suggested that postmodernity converts all art forms into commodities. Such a commodification of art implies a culture of surface appearance rather than depth. Thus he observes that the postmodern culture is that of the signifier than the signified, and that the linguistic sign has lost its value. The absence of depth leads to a culture where the surface meaning and appearance is all that matters. The “subject” lacks uniqueness and is fragmented, and this fragmentation and depthlessnes is what Jameson calls the culture of pastiche, where repetition of older styles becomes a style in itself, and where there are no “originals” or “prototype” and the copy is all that there is.
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The depthlessness manifests itself through literal flatness (two dimensional screens, flat skyscrapers full of reflecting windows) and qualitative superficiality. In theory, it manifests itself through the postmodern rejection of the belief that one can ever fully move beyond the surface appearances of ideology or "false consciousness" to some deeper truth; we are left instead with "multiple surfaces"