Harvey, David

The condition of postmodernity: an enquiry into the origins of cultural change/ David Harvey - Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell, 1989. - ix, 378 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [360]-367.

Part I The passage from inodernity to postmodernity in
contemporary culture
1 Introduction
2 Modernity and modernism
3 Postmodernism
4 Postmodernism in the city: architecture and urban
design
5 Modernization
6 POSTmodernism or postMODERNism?
Part II The politicaleconomic transformation of late
twentieth-century capitalism
7 Introduction
8 Fordism
9 From Fordism to flexible accumulation
10 Theorizing the transition
11 Flexible accumulation - solid transformation or
temporary fix?
Part III The experience of space and time
12 Introduction
13 Individual spaces and times in social life
14 Time and space as sources of social power
15 The time and space of the Enlightenment project
vi Contents
16 Timespace compression and the rise of modernism
as a cultural force
17 Timespace compression and the postmodern
condition
18 Time and space in the postmodern cinema
Part IV The condition of postmodernity
19 Postmodernity as a historical condition
20 Economics with mirrors
21 Postmodernism as the mirror of mirrors
22 Fordist modernism versus flexible postmodernism, or the interpenciration of opposed tendencies in
capitalism as a whole
23 The transformative and speculative logic of capital
24 The work of art in an age of electronic reproduction
and image banks
25 Responses to timespace compression
26 The crisis of historical materialism
27 Cracks in the mirrors, fusions at the edges

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Civilization, Modern
Capitalism.
Space and time.
Postmodernism.

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