Modern culture as a whole is a reaction to successive waves of time-space compression
Evidence
From these observations, David Harvey concludes that the culture of modernity as a whole can only be understood as a reaction to the transformed, crisis-ridden experiences of space and time that result from successive waves of “time-space-compression” and thus must be conceived as consequences of the acceleration of the pace of life and the annihilation of space through time. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 168
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines Harvey’s ‘time-space-compression’ concept as the annihilation of space through time by successive acceleration waves.
- XREF: Links to David Harvey’s The Condition of Postmodernity and Marx’s ‘annihilation of space by time’ theme. — connects to: Cultural mediation once worked through latency and obscurity, now through speed. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 841; Modernity’s own self-observation forces time structures to become sociology’s central object — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 123; Cultural modernity as a whole is a reaction to accelerated time — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 154 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Time-space compression from flexible accumulation generates a crisis of representation in cultural forms
#expands(0.90) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 2035 - Post-1960s time-space compression makes postmodernity historically distinctive
#corroborates(0.85) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1940 - Immediacy as cultural style derives from space-time compression in capitalism.
#corroborates(0.85) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 60 - Event-spectacle media culture causes the postmodern collapse of time horizons
#corroborates(0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 394 - Three mechanisms drive modernity’s dynamism and process of time-space distanciation
#responds-to(0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 131 - Loss of temporal coherence in the subject produces fragmentary, aleatory cultural forms.
#expands(0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 95