10th
yeah, you WOULD LIKE TO THINK things have changed!
Nor should the break in question be thought of as a purely cultural affair indeed, theories of the postmodern—whether celebratory or couched in the language of moral revulsion and denunciation—bear strong fmaily resemblance to all those more ambition sociological generalizations which, at much the same time, bring us the news of the arrival and inauguration of a while new type of society, most famously baptized “postindustiral society” (daniel Bell) but often also designated consumer society, media society, information society, electronic society or high tech, and the like. Such tehories have the obiveous ideological mission of demonstrating, to their own relief, that the new social formation in question no longer obeys the laws of classical capitalism, namely the primacy of insutrial production and the omnipresence of class struggle. (Frederick Jameson, 314, *a postmodern reader*)
