GGRB02H3 Lecture Notes - Risk Society, Reflexive Modernization
24 Apr 2013
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Terms and concepts: time-space compression: from doreen massey essay, time-space compression is a new phase in our world; new understanding of space. It refers to the movement and communication across space, to the geographical stretching-out of social relations, and to our experience of all this. Everything is speeding up, eg. dinner comes from produce sourced around the world. This was characterized by marx as annihilation of space by time. Such accidents are inevitable in extremely complex systems; multiple errors will occur, despite efforts to avoid them. This system opposes the first modernity as a consequence, institutions from the first modernity begin to crumble. One example of reflexive modernity is the collapse of a nuclear power plant.
