Hollywood depicts flexible labour paired with deindustrial urban decay

Evidence

The Los Angeles to which the replicants return is hardly a utopia. The flexibility of the replicants’ capacity to labour in outer space is, as we have recently come to expect, matched in Los Angeles by a decrepit landscape of deindustrialization and post-industrial decay. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1964

Categorization

• XREF: The deindustrial urban landscape thesis — connects to Harvey’s broader argument about post-Fordist geography.