Annihilation of space through time has always driven capitalism

Evidence

We have, in short, witnessed another fierce round in that process of annihilation of space through time that has always lain at the center of capitalism’s dynamic (see plate 3. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1850

Categorization

• XREF: Directly usable for the reader’s rival-periodization comparison: Harvey periodizes via successive rounds of time-space compression, an economics-grounded counter to other periodization schemes. — connects to: Historical materialism has begun to treat space and geography as causal forces in capitalism — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 2207; Immediacy as cultural style derives from space-time compression in capitalism. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 60; Three mechanisms drive modernity’s dynamism and process of time-space distanciation — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 131 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Historical materialism has begun to treat space and geography as causal forces in capitalism #expands (0.85) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 2207
• Immediacy as cultural style derives from space-time compression in capitalism. #expands (0.82) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 60
• Social order is fundamentally about how systems bind time and space #expands (0.80) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 44
• Three mechanisms drive modernity’s dynamism and process of time-space distanciation #expands (0.78) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 131
• Market capitalism reorganizes sacred space into Cartesian geometric homogeneity #expands (0.75)