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Postmodernism

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)

The move away from Marxism

Fordism

  • concept named after the famous automolobilist Henry Ford
  • using assembly lines
  • a way of achieving maximum output in production
  • The idea of minimum costs
  • David W. Harvey
  • Born 31 October 1935, Kent, ENGLAND!
  • Career
  • Chapter 17 of The Condition of Post-modernity (1989)

Post modernity:

"An historical period after modernity marked by the centrality of consumption in a post industrial context" (Barker, 508)

Transition

Flexible Accumulation

  • Corporations started to ship semi finished goods to production plants in different countries and sent finished goods to be sold in foreign markets.
  • This was the shift being made from Fordism to flexible accumulation.
  • Transition was accomplished through the rapid deployment of new organisational forms and new technologies in production.

Disclaimer

  • Circulation of capital across national borders around 1970s.
  • Not only capital also goods were being shipped between borders.
  • Under Fordism, this capital had stayed mainly within the borders of one domestic economy.
  • David Harvey is one of the most cited academics in the social sciences and humanities
  • the London The Independent named it as one of the fifty most important works of non-fiction to be published since 1945

Banksy

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?

  • 'the ephemerality of such images can interpreted in part as a struggle on the part of the oppressed groups of whatever sort to establish there own identity(in terms of culture, musical styles, fads and fashions...' (Harvey 289)
  • '...connectivity between place and social identity'(302)
  • Homosexuality
  • Judith Halberstam- "In a Queer Time and Place"

Academic Source Criticisms

Our criticism

"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

Our criticism

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

  • Introduction
  • Postmodernism
  • Move away from Marxism
  • Time- Space Compression
  • Main Argument
  • Economics
  • Politics/Ideology
  • Culture
  • Image
  • Identity
  • Criticisms
  • Conclusion
  • Group Discussion
  • Bibliography

Queer Time and Space (Judith Halberstam)

  • Judith Halberstom challenges Harveys understanding of time and space
  • Criticism: postmodern writers such as Harvey have "actively excluded sexuality as a category"
  • Alternative 'temporalities'
  • Personal opinion:
  • We still have some control over our life

What is time and space compression?

Social Life/Image

Conclusion

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Time=

  • '...the loss of a sense of the future except and insofar as the future can be discounted into the present.' (Harvey 291)
  • Ephemerality and Volatility
  • Example
  • Transition from Fordist capitalism to the regime of flexible accumulation
  • Result: time-space compression, within the framework of postmodernism
  • Postmodern compression of time --> an acceleration in the turnover of capital and an acceleration in consumption
  • Effect on economy, culture, identity, politics and image
  • Criticized for not including alternative perceptions of time and space, linked with identity (Queer time and space)
  • "geared to manipulate desires and tastes through images"
  • images as commodities
  • competition
  • serves to establish an identity in the market place

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FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT

  • the image of a company/the individual is most important
  • "it becomes feasible for accumulation to proceed at least in part on the basis of pure image production and marketing" (Harvey, 289)
  • feasible through modern technology

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?

  • Halberstam, Judith. In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives. New York: New York UP, 2005. Print.
  • Harvey, David. "Chapter 17: Time-Space Compression and the Postmodern Condition." The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990. 284-307. Print.
  • (Reference- BusinessDictionary.com,. 'What Is Fordism? Definition And Meaning'. N.p., 2014. Web. 25 Nov. 2014.)

  • 2.
  • Do you argee with Harvey's ideas that we are purely subjects of capitalism? And have no influence on the future?
  • Furthermore, Where will we be in 20 years?

Culture

  • ‘Mass Cultural’ Production e.g. New York and Paris

Main Argument

‘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

'Time-Space Compression' by David Harvey

- 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..."

  • Electronic banking usage made the money flow faster all around the world.
  • "24 hours a very long time" global stock market
  • Because of the new developments, labors were affected.
  • "de-skilling" and "re-skilling".
  • New labour needs.

"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.

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