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16 Popular Culture Review deployed as a “contained”, “enclosed”, and above all, separate urban space. Yet it also functions as a tool that can define or “narrate” surrounding city space in various ways. The practice of narrating space ties in with Jam eson’s landmark essay “Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism” (1984). On his attempted tour of the Bonaventure Hotel, Jameson refers to architectural theory’s borrowing from narrative analysis in order to create a discourse of human movement through architecturally constructed spaces. Using such a discourse, movement through such spaces can be recounted as an “attempt to see our physical trajectories...as virtual narratives o f stories, as dynamic paths and narrative paradigms which we as visitors are asked to complete with our own bodies and movements” (Jameson 82). Jameson attempts this tour of the Bonaventure Hotel, but its “postmodern” spaces foil his pursuit to linearly map a clear trajectory through it, and similarly hamper his efforts to narrate his own journey in his critical essay recounting his experience. It has often been pointed ou Ёѡ