GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: The Postmodern Condition, Dancing House, Channel Tunnel
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13: come together: the annihilation of space by time. Come together (cid:862)co(cid:373)e together(cid:863) = first tra(cid:272)k o(cid:374) the beatles(cid:859) last al(cid:271)u(cid:373): abbey road (1970) (cid:862)co(cid:373)e together(cid:863) = the beatles(cid:859) (cid:373)ost pote(cid:374)t politi(cid:272)al so(cid:374)g. It foreshadows a benevolent revolution, a world at last united. The world has not come together politically, but it has technologically in communications and transportation (cid:862)a(cid:374)(cid:374)ihilatio(cid:374) of pa(cid:272)e (cid:271)(cid:455) ti(cid:373)e(cid:863) I(cid:374) a (cid:373)arket e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)(cid:455) greater profit ste(cid:373)s fro(cid:373) redu(cid:272)i(cid:374)g the (cid:858)tur(cid:374)o(cid:448)er ti(cid:373)e(cid:859) i. e. the time taken between purchasing the inputs for a good and making and selling it. Found within changed labour practices within a work place i. e. the assembly line: ex: charlie chaplin in modern times (1936) stopping the machine. Found in attempts to speed up connections among geographically separated sites of production (cid:894)(cid:862)a(cid:374)(cid:374)ihilatio(cid:374) of spa(cid:272)e (cid:271)(cid:455) ti(cid:373)e(cid:863)(cid:895: ex: polish cargo boat annihilating space by time from gdansk to. Time-space compression is a trajectory built into the very structure of market economies.
