The condition of postmodernity : an enquiry into the origins of cultural change

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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