IMPENSIVE

[T]he four theses of modernity.

1. We cannot not periodize.
2. Modernity is not a concept, philosophical or otherwise, but a narrative category.
3. The narrative of modernity cannot be organized around categories of subjectivity; consciousness and subjectivity are unrepresentable; only situations of modernity can be narrated.
4. No ‘theory’ of modernity makes sense today unless it comes to terms with the hypothesis of a postmodern break with the modern.

♦ Fredric Jameson, A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present