Cultural shift and economic transition align but causal direction stays unclear

Evidence

While the roots of this transition are evidently deep and com­ plicated, their consistency with a transition from Fordism to flexible accumulation is reasonably clear even if the direction (if any) of causality is not. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1047

Categorization

• QUESTION: Harvey explicitly declines to state the causality direction between culture and flexible accumulation — exactly the contested point a rival periodization would attack.
• XREF: connects to: Cultural change can follow institutional change rather than precede it — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 2237; Cultural meaning shifts with the social field it enters; Financialization reshapes cultural industries through macroeconomic shifts. — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media: How Wall Street…, 58 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Cultural change can follow institutional change rather than precede it #expands (0.85) — , The Rod and the Child, 2237
• Civilizational culture determines economic and political development outcomes #complicates (0.82) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 45
• The modern-to-postmodern shift correlates with capitalism’s transformation from monopoly to multinational #exemplifies (0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 374
• Financialization reshapes cultural industries through macroeconomic shifts. #exemplifies (0.80) — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 58
• Economic base determines superstructure and historical epochs change through structural contradiction #contradicts (0.80)
• Cultural meaning shifts with the social field it enters #expands (0.78)
• Economic success generates cultural self-assertion and resistance to Western pressure #exemplifies (0.78) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 281
• The economic and cultural shifts of 1973 crystallized postmodernism as a new landscape #exemplifies (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 29
• Culture operates as a constitutive force in politics and social change #expands (0.74) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 159