Event-spectacle media culture causes the postmodern collapse of time horizons

Evidence

The collapse of time horizons and the preoccupation with instan­ taneity have in part arisen through the contemporary emphasis in cultural production on events, spectacles, happenings, and media images. Cultural producers have learned to explore and use new technologies, the media, and ultimately multi-media possibilities. The effect, however, has been to re-emphasize the fleeting qualities of modern life and even to celebrate them. But it has also permitted a rapprochement, in spite of Barthes’s interventions, between popular culture and what once remained isolated as ‘high culture.’ — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 394

Categorization

• XREF: This is a causal claim the reader can test against rival periodization accounts of postmodernity’s economic-basis — media technology as cause rather than effect of cultural form. — connects to: Modern life erodes integrated experience, replacing narration with information and shocks — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 623; Postmodernism replaced temporality with space and rejected phenomenological perception — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 331; Modernism privileges temporal experience while postmodernism subordinates time to space — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 367 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Immediacy consummates video’s postmodern total-flow into a pure present with no future #expands (0.85) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 195
• Modernism privileges temporal experience while postmodernism subordinates time to space #corroborates (0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 367
• Theorists locate the postmodern shift in a crisis of spatial-temporal experience #corroborates (0.80) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1255
• Social media stories create a simultaneous temporality built on speed and impermanence #exemplifies (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 94
• Postmodernism replaced temporality with space and rejected phenomenological perception #corroborates (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 331
• Post-1960s time-space compression makes postmodernity historically distinctive #corroborates (0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1940
• Immediacy as cultural style derives from space-time compression in capitalism. #corroborates (0.75) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 60
• Extreme postmodernism erases historical specificity into a millennia-old cultural constant #corroborates (0.72) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 129
• Three mechanisms drive modernity’s dynamism and process of time-space distanciation #contradicts (0.70) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 131