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nobody seems to miss God any longer

[...] the modernists tended to express such principles in accents of anguish or pathos. Nietzsche’s battle cry about the death of God was their watchword, along with various laments about the disenchantment of the world, and various purely psychological accounts of alienation and the domination of …

—p.125 New Left Review 92 Aesthetics of Singularity (101) by Fredric Jameson
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the fundamental principles of postmodern philosophy

[...] Postmodern philosophy is most generally associated with two fundamental principles, namely anti-foundationalism and anti-essentialism. These may be characterized, respectively, as the repudiation of metaphysics, that is, of any ultimate system of meaning in nature or the universe; and as the …

—p.125 Aesthetics of Singularity (101) by Fredric Jameson
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doxa

inasmuch as these constitute the doxa or the widespread opinions of the current moment, I am certainly not immune to their influence and attraction

sorta defined (you have to assume)

—p.124 Aesthetics of Singularity (101) by Fredric Jameson
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teleological

The world financial market is mirrored in the world art market, thrown open by the end of modernism and its Eurocentric canon of masterworks, along with the implicit or explicit teleology that informed it.

—p.122 Aesthetics of Singularity (101) by Fredric Jameson
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Edmund Husserl

think of postmodern futurities as compensations for a present time paralysed in its protentions and retentions (to use Husserl’s language)

heard of this guy before but never bothered to look him up

—p.121 Aesthetics of Singularity (101) by Fredric Jameson
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