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Harvey's "Time space compression " puts itself within the postmodernist intellectual framework.
Introduction
“postmodernism is "post" because it is denies the existence of any ultimate principles, and it lacks the optimism of there being a scientific, philosophical, or religious truth which will explain everything for everybody - a characteristics of the so-called "modern" mind.” (PBS.org)
Fordism
"An historical period after modernity marked by the centrality of consumption in a post industrial context" (Barker, 508)
Transition
Flexible Accumulation
Disclaimer
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Our Criticisms :
Table of Contents
Identity
- Harvey argues that recent decades have witnessed the revival of institutions such as the family or communities, but isn't the opposite happening in Europe?
Academic Source Criticisms
"The serious diminution of the power of individual nation states (...) has not been matched by any parallel shift towards an internationalization of politics" p 306
Harvey argues that there is a strong emphasis between place and social identity , but aren't there growing global identities?
- "Only a single-minded focus on the history of the white working class and an abstract concept of capital can give rise to the kind of neat scheme that Harvey establishes" --> Eurocentrism
- "Not only about compression and annihilation; it is also about the potentiality of a life unscripted by the conventions of family, inheritance, and child rearing." --> Harvey mustn't generalize, different perceptions of time
What is time and space compression?
Social Life/Image
Conclusion
Time=
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Space =
- place not space
- Satellite Communications & Television
Containerization
Competition between ‘World Cities’
Worldwide foods in the local supermarket
Bibliography
Discussion Questions
3. Do you think that "Queers" are effected by a different perception of time and space?
1. Is time-space compression an influence for young Europeans conversion to Islam and relocation to IS?
Culture
‘Simulacrum’
'By simulacrum is meant a state of such near perfect replication that the difference between the original and the copy becomes almost impossible to spot.'(Harvey 289)
Politics/Ideology
Economics
- General acceleration in time turnover and time compression -> ephemerality and volatility of ideologies and practices.
Harvey argues that we are currently within a phase of ephemerality and intense time-space compression that has a volatile and transformation effect on..
Economics
Politics/Ideology
Culture
Social life/Image
Identity
This has led to a "throwaway society"as Harvey describes it.
"Other psycological responses include denial (...) reversion to images of a lost past..."
"The greater the ephemerality, the more pressing the need to discover or manufacture some kind of eternal truth"
"The revival of interest in basic institutions, the search for historical roots are all signs of a search for more secure moorings and longer lasting values in a shifting world"
As a reaction to that, Harvey argues that we look for stable values:
"...an individualistic society of transients sets forth its nostalgia for common values..."
Examples: quest for Britishness in the UK, or the creation of the ministry of the national identity in France.
by Zoe Clack, Sunny Klassen, Efe Somethinglonganddifficult (DDTS), Gaetan Van Vyve and Megan Eldridge