Urban spectacle shifted from oppositional movements to different forces around 1972.

Evidence

In US cities, urban spectacle in the 1960s was constituted out of the mass oppositional movements of the time. Civil rights demon­ strations, street riots, and inner city uprisings, vast anti-war demon­ strations, and counter-cultural events (rock concerts in particular) were grist for the seething mill of urban discontent that whirled around the base of modernist urban renewal and housing projects. But since around 1972, the spectacle has been captured by quite different forces, and been put to quite different uses. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 552

Categorization

• QUESTION: The 1972 turning point for urban spectacle — what economic/periodization significance does Harvey attach to this date? Likely tied to the flexible accumulation shift.
• XREF: The post-1972 capture of spectacle connects to Jameson/debord’s spectacle analysis and to the reader’s core concern with the economic periodization of postmodernity.