Theorists locate the postmodern shift in a crisis of spatial-temporal experience

Evidence

Marshall Berman (1982) equates modernity (among other things) with a certain mode of experience of space and time. Daniel Bell (1978, 107 - 1 1) argues that the various movements that brought modernism to its apogee had to work out a new logic in the conception of space and motion. He suggests, furthermore, that the organization of space has ‘become the primary aesthetic problem of mid-twentieth century culture as the problem of time (in Bergson, Proust, and Joyce) was the primary aesthetic problem of the first decades of this century.’ Frederic Jameson (1984b) attributes the postmodern shift to a crisis in our experience of space and time, a crisis in which spatial categories come to dominate those of time, while themselves undergoing such a mutation that we cannot keep pace. ‘We do not yet possess the perceptual equipment to match this new kind of hyperspace,’ he writes, ‘in part because our perceptual habits were formed in that older kind of space I have called the space of high modernism.’ — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1255

Categorization

• DEFINE: Lays out the Jameson/Bell/Berman framing of modernism-to-postmodernism as a shift from time-centered to space-centered aesthetic problems — the exact rival account the reader is comparing.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s intermediate project comparing rival periodization accounts of postmodernity (Jameson vs. economic accounts). — connects to: Event-spectacle media culture causes the postmodern collapse of time horizons — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 394; Shifts in spatial and temporal representation drive shifts in social relations — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1584; Postmodernism replaced temporality with space and rejected phenomenological perception — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 331 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodernism replaced temporality with space and rejected phenomenological perception #expands (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 331
• Modernism privileges temporal experience while postmodernism subordinates time to space #expands (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 367
• Postmodern heterogeneity is spatial rather than temporal, filed by place not history #expands (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 795
• Postmodern perception holds incompatible coordinates without unifying them #expands (0.75)
• Conceptual art’s operation spatializes lived experience #exemplifies (0.72)