The experience of generationality is … a specific collective experience of the present: it marks the enlargement of my existential present into a collective and historical one.’
A generation, is not forged by passive endurance of events, but by hazarding a collective project.
That this too is uncommon enough can be deduced from Jameson’s example of the process: ‘Avant-gardes are so to speak the voluntaristic affirmation of the generation by sheer willpower, the allegories of a generational mission that may never come into being.’
So the small sect (the avant garde) crystallises the would-be universal – an ironic and possibly dialectical contradiction.
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A generation, is not forged by passive endurance of events, but by hazarding a collective project.
That this too is uncommon enough can be deduced from Jameson’s example of the process: ‘Avant-gardes are so to speak the voluntaristic affirmation of the generation by sheer willpower, the allegories of a generational mission that may never come into being.’
So the small sect (the avant garde) crystallises the would-be universal – an ironic and possibly dialectical contradiction.
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