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The Condition of Postmodernity An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change

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    9780631162940

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    0631162941

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1992-04-08
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Summary

In this new book, David Harvey seeks to determine what is meant by the term in its different contexts and to identify how accurate and useful it is as a description of contemporary experience.

Author Biography

David Harvey is Professor of Geography at the Johns Hopkins University. From 1987 to 1993 he held the Halford Mackinder Chair of Geography at Oxford University. His previous books include Social Justice and the City, The Limits to Capital (available in the USA from the University of Chicago Press, and elsewhere from Blackwell Publishers, UK) and The Urban Experience (available in the USA from the Johns University Press, and elsewhere from Blackwell Publishers, UK).

Table of Contents

The argument
Preface
Acknowledgements
The Passage from Modernity to Postmodernity in Contemporary Culture
Introduction
Modernity and Modernism
Postmodernism
Postmodernism in the City: Architecture and Urban Design
Modernization
POSTmodernISM or postMODERNism?
The Political-Economic Transformation of late Twentieth-Century Capitalism
Introduction
Fordism
From Fordism to Flexible Accumulation
Theorizing the Transition
Flexible Accumulation - Solid Transformation or Temporary Fix?
The Experience of Space and Time
Introduction
Individual Spaces and Times in Social Life
Time and Space as Sources of Social Power
The Time and Space of the Enlightenment Project
Time-space Compression and the Rise of Modernism as a Cultural Force
Time-Space Compression and the Postmodern Condition
Time and Space in the Postmodern Cinema
The Condition of Postmodernity
Postmodernity as a Historical Condition
Economics with Mirrors
Postmodernism as the Mirror of Mirrors
Fordist Modernism versus Flexible Postmodernism, or the Interpenetration of Opposed Tendencies in Capitalism as a Whole
The Transformative and Speculative Logic of Capital
The Work of Art in an Age of Electronic Reproduction and Image Banks
Responses to Time-Space Compression
The Crisis of Historical Materialism
Cracks in the Mirrors, Fusions at the Edges
References
Index
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