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The condition of postmodernity : an enquiry into the origins of cultural change / David Harvey.

By: Harvey, David.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Blackwell, 1989.Description: ix, 378 p. ill. 23 cm.ISBN: 0631162925; 0631162941 (pbk.).Subject(s): Civilization, Modern -- 1950- | Capitalism | Space and time | PostmodernismDDC classification: 909.82
Contents:
Part I: 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? -- Part II: 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? -- Part III: The experience of space and tie -- 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 -- Part IV: 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.
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Part I: 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? -- Part II: 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? -- Part III: The experience of space and tie -- 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 -- Part IV: 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.

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