When aesthetic judgment favors space over time, spatial practices dominate social action.
Evidence
Aesthetic judgements (as well as ‘redemptive’ artistic practices) have entered in as powerful criteria of political, and hence of social and economic, action. If aesthetic judgement prioritizes space over time, then it follows that spatial practices and concepts can, under certain circumstances, become central to social action. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1300
Categorization
- XREF: Directly relevant to the rival-periodization reading — aesthetic prioritization of space over time as the mechanism driving postmodern spatiality. — connects to: Space’s aesthetic formulation mediates between cognition and sociopolitical consequences; Aesthetic judgment is the processing of social relations — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 369; Spatial practices cannot be read apart from social context — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1402 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Space’s aesthetic formulation mediates between cognition and sociopolitical consequences
#expands(0.85) - Shifts in spatial and temporal representation drive shifts in social relations
#corroborates(0.85) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1584 - Spatial practices cannot be read apart from social context
#corroborates(0.78) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1402 - Aesthetic judgment is the processing of social relations
#qualifies(0.75) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 369 - Modernist spatial form unifies parts into a whole while postmodern spatialization disperses totality
#exemplifies(0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 910