Time space compression harvey12/29/2023 The reading goes on to further provide a theoretical framework, after underlining the two main factors which historically changed society and the way in which space was applicable, taking time into consideration, the larger subject of ‘Capitalism’ is addressed, highlighting the complicated relationship between all factors successfully: “If money has no meaning independent of time and space, then it is always possible to pursue profit by altering the ways time and space are used and defined. (Charlie Chaplins Eating Machine springs to mind!) Factors such as working labour management are highlighted, the effects of this power rise in the working classes over human rights and its impact of social power, as well innovative developments in factories with machinery are expanded and conceptualised. Other factors are highlighted by Harvey as important developments in the construction of ‘space’ in regards to social power, one being the ‘map’ and its developing format being sold for high prices to individuals that aspired to dominate large spaces. It is here to support this developing argument that Harvey cites Le Goff a French Historian: “these evolving mental structures and their material expression,’ Le Goff concludes, ‘were deeply implicated in the mechanisms of class struggle.’ (Harvey 1989: 228) The effects of this in regards to social power is that people knew there place, in the working hours you must work and if you are not doing some work within those hours then you would either be considered too well off to need to work, or irrelevant in the grand scheme the capitalist society that was vastly developing. The 9-5 as we would now call it the time in which people go to work. The developments within society such as working time: “clocks and bells that called workers to labour and merchants to market, separated from the ‘natural’ rhythms of agrarian life, and divorced from religious significations, merchants and masters created a new ‘chronological net’ in which daily life was caught.” (Harvey 1989: 228) With this argument established and these opposing statements to consider the reading goes on to highlight the key factors that can effects these ways of viewing ‘space’ historically. Shifts in the objective qualities of space and time, in short, can be, and often are, effected through social struggle” (Harvey 1989: 227) “ideological and political hegemony in any society depends on an ability to control the material context of personal and social experience” (Harvey 1989:226)Īs this statement may lead you to believe that this is a one dimensional view of the notion of ‘space’ it is also considered, how through ‘social struggle’ individuals can change the ‘space’ and its political culture to an extent: “within a given set of rules generate much of the social energy to change those rules. Ensuring that a solid foundation to this notion is developed, the reading goes on to underline the specific effects of this social control of ‘space’ in regards to long periods of time and ultimately political power: It is in this section of the book that the distinctive relationship between money, space and time is established in the most simple and applicable terms, highlighting the fact that: those who possess money can occupy space, with the power of capital, allowing them time in order to truly control development which is essentially at the core of a vicious cycle of a capitalist society. The first section that I have studied Time and Space as sources of social power. In terms of social space, and of each member of given society’s relationship to that space, this cohesion implies a guaranteed level of competence and a specific level of performance. Spatial practice ensures continuity and some degree of cohesion. I will firstly provide the definition taken from Lefebvre’s work ‘The Condition of Post modernity’ to ensure that as reading on there is no confusion as to what ‘Spatial Practice’ is referring to: Spatial practice, which embraces production and reproduction and the particular locations and spatial sets characteristic of each social fragmentation. The background studies I have conducted were on ‘ The Situationists’ as previously posted, providing a historical foundation to this concept in regards to Henri Lefebvre, which has now been developed in my current studies on ‘Time and Space’ found in the concluding sections of ‘Condition of Post modernity’ by David Harvey. The background knowledge on the concept of ‘Space’ and its uses and gratifications has made it a lot more applicable to this project. In order to gain an in depth understanding of the concept of ‘space’ it was essential to do some background studies of the concept, which would highlight some of the main contributors to this notion of ‘space’. Chapter 16 – Time-space compression and the rise of modernism as a cultural force
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