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Condition of postmodernity : an enquiry into the origins of cultural change

By: Publication details: Malden Blackwell Pub. 2017Description: ix,378pISBN:
  • 9780631162940
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 909.82 HAR
Contents:
The argument vii Preface viii Acknowledgements x Part I The passage from modernity to postmodernity in contemporary culture 1 Introduction 3 2 Modernity and modernism 10 3 Postmodernism 39 4 Postmodernism in the city: architecture and urban design 66 5 Modernization 99 6 POSTmodernism or postMODERNism? 113 Part II The political-economic transformation of late twentieth-century capitalism 7 Introduction 121 8 Fordism 125 9 From Fordism to flexible accumulation 141 10 Theorizing the transition 173 11 Flexible accumulation - solid transformation or temporary fix? 189 Part III The experience of space and time 12 Introduction 201 13 Individual spaces and times in social life 211 14 Time and space as sources of social power 226 15 The time and space of the Enlightenment project 240 16 Time-space compression and the rise of modernism as a cultural force 260 17 Time-space compression and the postmodern condition 284 18 Time and space in the postmodern cinema 308 Part IV The condition of postmodernity 19 Postmodernity as a historical condition 328 20 Economics with mirrors 329 21 Postmodernism as the mirror of mirrors 336 22 Fordist modernism versus flexible postmodernism, or the interpenetration of opposed tendencies in capitalism as a whole 338 23 The transformative and speculative logic of capital 343 24 The work of art in an age of electronic reproduction and image banks 346 25 Responses to time-space compression 350 26 The crisis of historical materialism 353 27 Cracks in the mirrors, fusions at the edges 356 References 360 Index 368
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The argument vii
Preface viii
Acknowledgements x
Part I The passage from modernity to postmodernity in contemporary culture
1 Introduction 3
2 Modernity and modernism 10
3 Postmodernism 39
4 Postmodernism in the city: architecture and urban design 66
5 Modernization 99
6 POSTmodernism or postMODERNism? 113
Part II The political-economic transformation of late twentieth-century capitalism
7 Introduction 121
8 Fordism 125
9 From Fordism to flexible accumulation 141
10 Theorizing the transition 173
11 Flexible accumulation - solid transformation or
temporary fix? 189
Part III The experience of space and time
12 Introduction 201
13 Individual spaces and times in social life 211
14 Time and space as sources of social power 226
15 The time and space of the Enlightenment project 240
16 Time-space compression and the rise of modernism as a cultural force 260
17 Time-space compression and the postmodern condition 284
18 Time and space in the postmodern cinema 308
Part IV The condition of postmodernity
19 Postmodernity as a historical condition 328
20 Economics with mirrors 329
21 Postmodernism as the mirror of mirrors 336
22 Fordist modernism versus flexible postmodernism, or the interpenetration of opposed tendencies in capitalism as a whole 338
23 The transformative and speculative logic of capital 343
24 The work of art in an age of electronic reproduction and image banks 346
25 Responses to time-space compression 350
26 The crisis of historical materialism 353
27 Cracks in the mirrors, fusions at the edges 356
References 360
Index 368

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