Space and time are afterimages of the mode of production.

Evidence

On this account, however, neither space nor time is “natural” in the sense in which it might be metaphysically presupposed (as ontology or human nature alike): both are the consequence and projected afterimages of a certain state or structure of production and appropriation, of the social organization of productivity. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 783

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is the core thesis that style/aesthetic form is the economy’s way of appearing — space and time as projected afterimages of production.
• XREF: connects to: By 1838 Europeans already conceived of space as a function of travel time — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 307; Control over space is simultaneously control over time and the past — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 467; The film In Time makes time serve as money to dramatize precarity — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1623