Postmodern spatial disruption mirrors flexible accumulation’s global marketplace.
Evidence
Disruptive spatiality triumphs over the coherence of perspective and narrative in postmodern fiction, in exactly the same way that imported beers coexist with local brews, local employment collapses under the weight of foreign competition, and all the divergent spaces of the world are assembled nightly as a collage of images upon the television screen. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1906
Categorization
- XREF: This is the core homology claim linking cultural form to economic base — the heart of Harvey’s argument that postmodernism mimics flexible accumulation, directly relevant to comparing against the rival periodization. — connects to: Postmodern political change flows from markets rather than mass struggles — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 273; The modern-to-postmodern shift correlates with capitalism’s transformation from monopoly to multinational — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 374; Theorists locate the postmodern shift in a crisis of spatial-temporal experience — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1255 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- The modern-to-postmodern shift correlates with capitalism’s transformation from monopoly to multinational
#expands(0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 374 - Postmodern nomadism mirrors how multinational capital disavows its origins
#corroborates(0.85) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 219 - Theorists locate the postmodern shift in a crisis of spatial-temporal experience
#corroborates(0.80) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1255 - Postmodern architectural disputes are inseparable from capitalist spatial reorganization
#corroborates(0.80) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 577 - Immediacy as cultural style derives from space-time compression in capitalism.
#expands(0.75) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 60