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158:. For Postone, the postmodern moment is not necessarily just a one-sided effect of the contemporary form of capitalism but can also be seen as having an emancipatory side if it happened to be part of post-capitalism. And because postmodernism usually neglects its own context of embeddedness it can legitimate capitalism as postmodern, whereas at the level of deep structure it may in fact be more concentrated, with large capitals that accumulate rather than diverge, and with an expansion of commodification niches with fewer buyers. 1287: 498: 1298: 127:, and the end of the 20th century. In both of these time periods, according to Jon May and Nigel Thrift, "there occurred a radical restructuring in the nature and experience of both time and space ... both periods saw a significant acceleration in the pace of life concomitant with a dissolution or collapse of traditional spatial co-ordinates". 139:
socially": "how people are placed within 'time-space compression' are complicated and extremely varied". In effect, Massey is critical of the notion of "time-space compression" as it represents capital's attempts to erase the sense of the local and masks the dynamic social ways through which places remain "meeting places".
112:, time-space compression is an essential facet of capitalist life, saying that "we are entering a space which is speed-space ... This new other time is that of electronic transmission, of high-tech machines, and therefore, man is present in this sort of time, not via his physical presence, but via programming" (qtd. in 120:, Virilio coined the term dromology to describe the study of "speed-space". Virilio describes velocity as the hidden factor in wealth and power, where historical eras and political events are effectively speed-ratios. In his view, acceleration destroys space and compresses time in ways of perceiving reality. 138:
critiqued the idea of time-space compression in her discussion of globalization and its effect on our society. She insisted that any ideas that our world is "speeding up" and "spreading out" should be placed within local social contexts. "Time-space compression", she argues, "needs differentiating
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content of such things as equal distribution or diversity are potentials of capitalism itself in its abundant and diverse productive powers. This initial perspective misfires however, when forms of society such as modernity and subsequently postmodernism take itself as the true whole of life for
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Time–space compression occurs as a result of technological innovations driven by the global expansion of capital that condense or elide spatial and temporal distances, including
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Theorists generally identify two historical periods in which time–space compression occurred; the period from the mid-19th century to the beginnings of the
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being oppositional to capitalism, when in fact they are grounded in the reproduction of the same capitalist relations that created them.
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Postone asserts that one cannot step outside capitalism and declare it a pure evil or as a one-dimensional badness, since the
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in 1987, translated into English as "Ecological and Economic Modalities of Time and Space" and published in
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and the relationship between space and time that is a consequence of the expansion of
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A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism: Power, Property and the State
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Altvater, Elmar (1989). "Ecological and economic modalities of time and space".
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The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
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expressed" by the deep structure concepts of capital, value and the
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Political Economy of the Present and Possible Global Future(s)
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Virilio Live. Ed. John Armitage. London: Sage, 2001. 69–81.
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Index

Time space compression
space–time
capital
Karl Marx
Grundrisse
David Harvey
Elmar Altvater
Capitalism Nature Socialism
technologies of communication
telegraph
telephones
fax machines
Internet
travel
Paul Virilio
First World War
Doreen Massey
Moishe Postone
capitalism
social forms
commodity
emancipatory
Global village
Late capitalism
Late modernism
Social production of space
Space of flows
"Ökologische und ökonomische Modalitäten von Zeit und Raum"
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10.32387/prokla.v17i67.1338

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