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He sees postmodernity rising from the transformation of a modern system of mass production with a relatively fixed system of capital accumulation. He depends heavily on Marx's theory of capital for his model. He sets up "Fordism" to describe the modernist emphasis on standardization, mass production, labor stability. He describes the instabilities inherent in Fordism and the transformation in the 1970s to "flexible accumulation" as a new way of operating capitalism and its financial markets.
SPACE-TIME COMPRESSION: For Harvey the most important cultural change in the transformation from Fordism to flexible accumulation--and from modernity to postmodernity--was the change in the human experience of space and time
THE CONDITION OF POSTMODERNITY: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGINS OF CULTURAL CHANGE. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1990.
The Limits of Capitalism,
The Urban Experience,
Justice, Nature & the Geography of Difference: the Geography of Difference 1996
Spaces of Hope 2000
Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography 2001
The New Imperialism. 2003
"Considerations on the environment of justice," forthcoming in Low, N. (ed), Global Ethics "The spaces of utopia," forthcoming in Goldberg, D. (ed) - title to be determined "The work of postmodernity: The body in global space," forthcoming in Davis, J. (ed) - title to be determined "The geography of class power," Socialist Register, (1998), 49-74. "The body as an accumulation strategy," Society and Space, forthcoming.(1998) "The new urbanization and the communitarian trap, Harvard Design Magazine, Winter/Spring 1997, 68-9. "Globalization in question," Rethinking Marxism, 8, No.4, 1996, 1-17. "On architects, bees and possible urban worlds" in Davidson. C. (ed), Anywise, MIT Press, 1996. "The environment of justice," in A Merrifield and E.Swyngedouw (eds), The urbanization of injustice, Lawrence and Wishart (London), 1996.
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people4/Harvey/harvey-con0.html
Interview: David Harvey, “The Politics of Social Justice”
"There has been a sea-change in cultural as well as in political-economic practices since around 1972.
"This sea-change is bound up with the emergence of new dominant ways in which we experience space and time.
"While simultaneity in the shifting dimensions of time and space is no proof of necessary or causal connection, strong a priori grounds can be adduced for the proposition that there is some kind of necessary relation between the rise of postmodernist cultural forms, the emergence of more flexible modes of capital accumulation, and a new round of 'time-space compression' in the organization of capitalism.
"But these changes, when set against the basic rules of capitalistic accumulation, appear more as shifts in surface appearance rather than as signs of the emergence of some entirely new postcapitalist or even postindustrial society." (p. vii.)
