REVIEW

THE CONDITION OF POST-MODERNITY

BY- DAVID HARVEY

SUBMITTED TO: SUBMITTED BY:

AR.SUNAKSHI SHOKEEN TANYA KUKREJA
NEERAJ VASHISHT
 1 About the author

2 About the book

3 Introduction

4 Modernism

5 Fordism

CONTENTS 6 Flexible Accumulation

7 Postmodernism

8 Summary
 ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born 31 October 1935 (age 83) Gillingham, Kent, England

Nationality British
Alma mater St John's College, Cambridge
Known for Marxist geography, quantitative revolution in geography, critical
geography, economic anthropology, political anthropology, right
to the city, Time space compression, Accumulation by
Fields dispossession Scientific career
Institutions Anthropology, Geography, political economy, social theory
Thesis City University of New York
Aspects of agricultural and rural change in Kent, 1800–1900
Influences (1961)
Marx, Darwin, Freud, Nietzsche, Lefebvre, Engels, Bookchin,
Gramsci, Radhakrishnan

WROTE THE WAYS OF

WROTE SOCIAL THE WORLD
JUSTICE AND THE CITY
BORN IN GILLINGHAM

PhD TITLE AT
CAMBRIDGDE
1961 WROTE THE CONDITION
OF POST MODERNITY NOW
1989 2016
1935
1973
 FLEXIBLE ACCUMULATION

The accumulation of capital achieved by flexible labour agreements,outsourcing,spatial

division of labour and investment in other sectors.
Fordism as triumph of reason over marketplcae.
Flexible accumulation as new phase requiring new ways to maximize
profit.
What is flexible accumulation?
 Flexible accumulation as a response.
 Capitalism as a system based on growth,exploitation of labour and
copetition.
 Flexibility in labour process,labour market,production and
consumption.
 Characterized by new ways of providing financial services and new
markets.
 Characterized by organisational innovation and technology.
 Time-space compression
 Shifts in patterning of uneven development,'service sector'.
Disadvantages
 Weakened union power,organised labour and other social
movements.
 Radical restucturing of labour market under conditions of
flexible accumulation.

Avantages
 Important shifts in industrial organisation.
 Growth of banking and financial system autonomy(shift funds
from failing to profitable enterprises,regions and sectors).
 Control inflation(by neo-conservatism).
 POSTMODERNISM

Postmodernism, also spelled post-

"The experience of time and space has modernism, in Western philosophy, a late 20th-
changed, the confidence in the association century movement characterized by broad
between scientific and moral judgements has skepticism, subjectivism, or relativism; a general
collapsed, aesthetics has triumphed over suspicion of reason; and an acute sensitivity to
ethics as a prime focus of social and intellectual the role of ideology in asserting and
concern, images dominate narratives,ephemerality and maintaining political and economic power.
fragmentation take precedence over eternal truths and
unified politics, and explanations have shifted from the
realm of material and political-economic groundings
towards a consideration of autonomous cultural and
political practices"
 EXAMPLES

ARCHITECTURE ART
Guggenheim Museum, From art as 'fine and high art' towards 'pop culture and
Bilbao, Spain (1997) by reproducability'.
Frank O Gehry

PPG Place, Pittsburgh,

Pennsylvania by Philip
Johnson (1979–84)

Sainsbury Wing of the

National Gallery in London
by Robert Venturi (1991)

SOCIETY
Kyoto Concert Volatality- Throw away society
Hall in Kyoto,
Japan by Image-Self identification and meaning
Isozaki Arata Fake it until you make it!!!
(1995)
Daily life- divergent possibilities and the search for
personal and collective identity.
Beaudrillard- Commodification of images without spatial borders opens up new markets.