“To say that my two terms, the cultural and the economic, thereby collapse back into one another and say the same thing, in an eclipse of the distinction between base and superstructure that has itself often struck people as significantly characteristic of postmodernism in the first place, is also to suggest that the base, in the third stage of capitalism, generates its superstructure with a new kind of dynamic.” (xxi) Jameson's model of a collapsed cultural-economic complex finds its home in the suburbs. It is here that nearly every form of cultural immersion occurs in the private space of late capital. The mall, that bastion of capital (which, indeed, makes no bones about its status as retail outlet), is the cultural center of the suburb.