Fordist modernity stabilized its economy to enable change while flexible postmodernism reverses this

Evidence

The latter achieved relative stability in its political-economic ap­ paratus in order to produce strong social and material change, whereas the former has been dogged by disruptive instability in its political­ economic apparatus, but sought compensation in stable places of being and in charismatic geopolitics. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 2102

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The inversion thesis is the chapter’s load-bearing claim: each regime achieves stability in the domain the other destabilizes, framing cultural postmodernism as compensation for economic flexibility.
• XREF: connects to: Flexible postmodernism couples economic ephemerality with cultural commitments to place and being — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 2102; So-called postmodern changes merely accentuate long-standing modern Western tendencies — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 716; Fordism marks a forced passage from economic individualism to a planned economy — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1031 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Flexible postmodernism couples economic ephemerality with cultural commitments to place and being #expands (0.85) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 2102
• Flexible production bypassed Fordist rigidity to serve quick-changing markets #expands (0.85) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 936
• So-called postmodern changes merely accentuate long-standing modern Western tendencies #contradicts (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 716
• So-called postmodern trends merely continue capitalist processes begun under modernism #contradicts (0.80) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 574
• Fordism marks a forced passage from economic individualism to a planned economy #expands (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1031
• The modern-to-postmodern shift correlates with capitalism’s transformation from monopoly to multinational #expands (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 374