Space homogenization clashes with place-based identity, fueling political antagonism

Evidence

The homogenization of space poses serious difficulties for the conception of place. If the latter is the site of Being (as many theorists were later to suppose), then Becoming entails a spatial politics that renders place subservient to transformations of space. Absolute space yields, as it were, to relative space. It is precisely at this point that the incipient tension between place and space can get transformed into an absolute antagonism. The reorganization of space to democratic ends challenged dynastic power embedded in place. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1628

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in postmodern flexibilization and how space homogenization undermines localized identity — the core rival-periodization theme. — connects to: Space is not freedom but permanent construction through contested social interactions; Place-based identity politics replace class politics and revive geopolitics. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1725; Place in contemporary America has dissolved into overlapping abstract spatial networks — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 323 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Space is not freedom but permanent construction through contested social interactions #expands (0.85)
• Place in contemporary America has dissolved into overlapping abstract spatial networks #complicates (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 323
• Place-based identity politics replace class politics and revive geopolitics. #corroborates (0.78) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1725
• Space-binding media create communities dispersed across distance rather than place #exemplifies (0.75) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 623
• Historical materialism has begun to treat space and geography as causal forces in capitalism #expands (0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 2207
• Urban alienation grows with the mental unmappability of city space #exemplifies (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 889