The Condition of Postmodernity 13 - autonomous learning

VIContents16 Time-space compression and the rise of modernismas a cultural force 26017 Time-space compression and the postmoderncondition 28418 Time and space in the postmodern cinema 308Part IV The condition of postmodernity19 Postmodernity as a historical condition20 Economics with mirrors21 Postmodernism as the mirror of mirrors22 Fordist modernism versus flexible postmodernism,or the interpenetration of opposed tendencies incapitalism as a whole23 The transformative and speculative logic of capital24 The work of art in an age of electronic reproductionand image banks25 Responses to time-space compression26 The crisis of historical materialism27 Cracks in the mirrors, fusions a t the edgesReferencesIndex327329336338343346350353356360368The argumentThere has been a sea-change in cultural as well as in politicaleconomicpractices since around 1972.This sea-change is bound up with the emergence of new dominantways in which we experience space and time.While simultaneity in the shifting dimensions of time and space isno proof of necessary or causal connection, strong a priori groundscan be adduced for the proposition that there is some kind ofnecessary relation between the rise of postmodernist cultural forms, theemergence of more flexible modes of capital accumulation, and a newround of 'time-space compression' in the organization of capitalism.But these changes, when set against the basic rules of capitalisticaccumulation, appear more as shifts in surface appearance rather thanas signs of the emergence of some entirely new postcapitalist or evenpostindustrial society.