In his essay ‘Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism’ (1984b), the American literary scholar Frederic Jameson attempts to relate postmodern culture to broader economic, social and political developments. The main thesis is that postmodernism is nothing more than the cultural logic of late capitalism. Jameson analyses a range of contemporary artworks and cultural products and shows how they differ from the art of the modernist era. Where truth, the creative and the individual subject are questioned, concepts such as practices, discourses and intertextual games become important instead. While Jameson’s essay remains relevant as a contemporary diagnosis and for those who want to understand what the term ‘postmodernism’, means, it is interesting above all as a methodological model that shows the possibilities of historicising current trends.