Post-1960s time-space compression makes postmodernity historically distinctive
Evidence
The intensity of time-space compression in Western capitalism since the 1960s, with all of its congruent features of excessive ephemerality and fragmentation in the political and private as well as in the social realm, does seem to indicate an experiential context that makes the condition of postmodernity somewhat special. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1940
Categorization
- XREF: Central to the rival-periodization claim the reader is comparing — the ‘somewhat special’ hedging is the key load-bearing nuance. — connects to: Event-spectacle media culture causes the postmodern collapse of time horizons — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 394; Time-space compression from flexible accumulation generates a crisis of representation in cultural forms — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 2035; Modernism privileges temporal experience while postmodernism subordinates time to space — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 367 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Modernism privileges temporal experience while postmodernism subordinates time to space
#corroborates(0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 367 - Postmodern heterogeneity is spatial rather than temporal, filed by place not history
#corroborates(0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 795 - The economic and cultural shifts of 1973 crystallized postmodernism as a new landscape
#corroborates(0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 29 - Immediacy as cultural style derives from space-time compression in capitalism.
#corroborates(0.80) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 60 - Postmodernism discourse must be dated to its specific historical conjuncture
#corroborates(0.70) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 597