Shifts in spatial and temporal representation drive shifts in social relations

Evidence

If spatial and temporal experiences are primary vehicles for the coding and reproduction of social relations (as Bourdieu suggests), then a change in the way the former get represented will almost certainly generate some kind of shift in the latter. This principle helps explain the support that the Renaissance maps of England supplied to individualism, nationalism, and parliamentary democracy at the expense of dynastic privilege (see plate 3. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1584

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks directly to the book’s core thesis linking material/spatial change to cultural transformation; comparable to how flexible accumulation maps onto postmodern cultural forms. — connects to: Theorists locate the postmodern shift in a crisis of spatial-temporal experience — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1255; The friend-enemy distinction dissolves only through mutual recognition within shared space; Social distance maintained by etiquette or replaced by spatial segregation undergirds hierarchy (+5 more)
• QUESTION: The causal direction is asserted (representation changes generate social-relation shifts) — worth chasing whether Bourdieu allows the reverse direction.

Broader Connections

• Theorists locate the postmodern shift in a crisis of spatial-temporal experience #expands (0.80) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1255
• Social change resists purely instrumental explanations because actors inhabit multiple temporalities #expands (0.80) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 1064
• Social distance maintained by etiquette or replaced by spatial segregation undergirds hierarchy #exemplifies (0.78)
• The friend-enemy distinction dissolves only through mutual recognition within shared space #qualifies (0.75)
• Social media constitutes a contextual monoculture that destroys meaning-bearing spatial context #exemplifies (0.72) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 548