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> Postmodernism w/o the "ism", first use I've seen among lit critters,
> Irving Howe in 1959, in Partisan Review.
> ... while even the very origin of the term "postmodern" has been shrouded
in
> veils of
> misunderstanding: The incredible Irving Howe seems to have coined it in
1959
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Actually, the term was used in 1957 in Rosenberg and White's introduction to _Mass Culture_ (the grandmomma of _Cultural Studies_ anthologies.) But FJ's argument in both "Periodizing the Sixties" and the _Postmodernism_ book is that it is the cultural logic accompanying the transformational crisis of global capitalism circa 1972-3. Mike Davis long ago pointed out that this is a misreading of Mandel's _Late Capitalism_, on which such cultural logic is supposedly founded.
Christian