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There are two elements within this problem that deserve close consideration. First, the capacity of most social movements to com- mand place better than space puts a strong emphasis upon the po- tential connection between place and social identity. This is manifest in political action. The defensiveness of municipal socialism, the insistence on working-class community, the localization of the fight against capital, become central features of working-class struggle 71)(: postmodem condition within an overall patterning of uneven geographical development. '1.'1 10 consequent dilemmas of socialis…
Harvey-David-Time-space-compression-and-the-postmodern-condition.pdfBaudrillard (1986), never afraid to exaggerate, considers the United States as a society so given over to speed, motion, cinematic images, and technological fixes as to have created a crisis of explanatory logic. It represents, he suggests, 'the triumph of effect over cause, of i nstantaneity over time as depth, the triumph of surface and of pure objectivization over the depth of desire.'
Harvey-David-Time-space-compression-and-the-postmodern-condition.pdfBy 'simulacrum' is meant a state of such near perfect replication that the difference between the original and the copy becomes almost impossible to spot. The production of images as simulacra is relatively easy, given modern techniques. Insofar as identity is increasingly dependent upon images, this means that the serial and recursive replications of identities (individual, corporate, institutional, and political) becomes a very real possibility and prob- lem. We can certainly see it at work in the realm of politics as the image makers and the media assume a more powerful role in the shaping …
Harvey-David-Time-space-compression-and-the-postmodern-condition.pdfThe 'lifetime' of such services (a visit to a museum, going to a rock concert or movie, attending lectures or health clubs), though hard to estimate, is far shorter than that of an automobile or washing machine. If there are limits to the accumulation and turnover of physical goods (even counting the famous six thousand pairs of shoes of Imelda Marcos), then it makes sense for capitalists to turn to the provision of very ephemeral services in consumption.
Harvey-David-Time-space-compression-and-the-postmodern-condition.pdftime-space compression that has had a disorienting and disruptive impact upon political-economic practices, the balance of class power, as well as upon cultural and social life
Harvey-David-Time-space-compression-and-the-postmodern-condition.pdfalistic society of transients sets forth its nostalgia for common values. The production and marketing of such images of permanence and power require considerable sophistication, because the continuity and stability of the image have to be retained while stressing the adaptability, flexibility, and dynamism of whoever or whatever is being imaged. Moreover, image becomes all-important in competition, not only through name-brand recognition but also because of various associations of 'respectability,' 'quality,' 'prestige,' 'reliability,' and 'innovation.'
Harvey-David-Time-space-compression-and-the-postmodern-condition.pdfIf we stripped modern advertising of direct reference to the three themes of money, sex, and power there would be very little left. Furthermore, images have, in a sense, themselves become com- modities. This phenomenon has led Baudrillard (1981) to argue that Marx's analysis of commodity production is outdated because capit- alism is now predominantly concerned with the production of signs,
Harvey-David-Time-space-compression-and-the-postmodern-condition.pdfThe elect ric light is pure informat ion. It is a medium without a mes sage, as it were , unless it is used to spell out some verb al ad or name. This fact , charact eri s tic of all med ia, mean s that the “content” of any med ium is always ano ther m e dium.
mcluhan.mediummessage.pdfMan y people would be disposed to say that it was not the mach ine, but what one did with the mach ine, that was its mean ing or mes sage
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