The condition of postmodernity : an enquiry into the origins of cultural change /
David Harvey.
- ix, 378 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-367) and index.
Part I: The passage from modernity 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 political -- economic 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 tie -- 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 -- 16. Time-space compression and the rise of modernism as a cultural force -- 17. Time-space 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 interpenetration 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 time-space compression -- 26. The crisis of historical materialism -- 27. Cracks in the mirrors, fusions at the edges.
Traces the development of the concept of postmodernism, explains its differences with modernism, and discusses political and social influences.
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Civilization, Modern--1950- Capitalism. Space and time. Postmodernism.