Mapping the Terrain of Time—Space Compression: Power Networks in Everyday Life

1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 611-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Bridge
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Power Networks ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Space Compression ◽  
Actor Networks ◽  
Power Geometry ◽  
Comprehensive Mapping

In this paper I seek a more comprehensive mapping of the experience of time—space in late modernity. I develop Massey's critique of the work of Harvey and Jameson in their reading of time space compression as a socially uniform experience of disorientation. Building on Massey's notion of ‘power geometry’ I integrate discussions of time—space with an application of different understandings of power (from traditional political philosophy, Marxism, and poststructuralism) and their manifestations—in latent-power conditions, socioeconomic networks, actor networks, ‘local’ interpersonal relations, and the network spaces of subjectivity. Rather than being posited as irreconcilable conceptions, these versions of power and their articulations can be seen as initial coordinates in the mapping of the complexities of the experiences of time and space in late modernity.

One World? The Poetics of Passenger Flight and the Perception of the Global

PMLA ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 127 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marit J. MacArthur
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Poetry ◽  
Air Travel ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Flight Speed ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Space Compression

The poetry of passenger flight, especially in the early years of the jet age, is exceptional in illuminating the perceptual, affective, and ethical confusions of the global perspective. Offering readings of James Merrill's “Flying from Byzantium,” Elizabeth Bishop's “Night City,” Amiri Baraka's “The Nation Is like Ourselves,” and Derek Walcott's “The Fortunate Traveller,” this essay integrates theoretical grounding in the phenomenology of flight (speed, distance, time, and perspective), the legacy of Romantic landscape meditation in contemporary poetry and the evolution of the literature of flight, and relevant historical background about the development of commercial air travel. The passenger's view in the period when flight was no longer thrilling and not yet tedious is a peculiarly apt trope for the difficulties of imagining the global and of registering the conundrum of globalization—in its most basic sense, time-space compression—from its repercussions in our private lives to the greatest humanitarian challenges of our time.

scholarly journals Phenomenological Reflections on the Structure of Transformation: The example of Sustainable Agriculture

2021 ◽  
pp. 451
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Behnke
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Agriculture ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Related Question ◽  
Number Series ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Experience Of Time

This essay will move toward a phenomenology of “more” in ten steps. 1st, situates the investigation within the tradition of Husserlian phenomenological practice, then 2nd draws upon Husserl’s own experience of doing phenomenology. 3rd considers some initial aspects of the structure of the lived experience of “more” and 4th is about the number series, while 5th addresses the primal experience of time, space, and movement. 6th focuses on the phenomenological notion of horizons, then 7th turns to the related question of transcendence. 8th takes a critical look at a particular conceptual model sometime used in thinking about the experience of “more”; 9th briefly brings out one of the ethical implications of this critique; and finally, 10th highlights some of the ways in which the research documented here is itself still incomplete and demands “more”.Este ensayo se moverá hacia una fenomenología de "más" en diez pasos. El prime-ro, sitúa la investigación dentro de la tradición de la práctica fenomenológica husserliana; luego, el segundo se basa en la propia experiencia de Husserl de hacer fenomenología; el tercero considera algunos aspectos iniciales de la estructura de la experiencia vivida de "más" y el cuarto es sobre la serie numérica, mientras que el quinto aborda la experiencia primordial de tiempo, espacio y movimiento. El sexto se centra en la noción fenomenológica de horizontes; después el séptimo pasa a la cuestión relacionada con la trascendencia. El octavo echa una mirada crítica a un modelo conceptual particular usado en algún momento para pensar sobre la experiencia de "más"; el noveno destaca brevemente una de las implicaciones éticas de esta crítica;y, finalmente, el décimo resalta algunas de las formas en las que la investigación aquí documentada todavía está incompleta y exige "más".

Understanding Late-Twentieth-Century Capitalism: Reassessing the Globalization Theme

1996 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don D. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World Order ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Space Compression ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Similar Vein ◽  
International Socialization ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

There are Many Ambiguities Within The Literature on globalization. Some scholars speak of a world that is chunging others use the framework as part of a new univocal discourse to describe late twentieth-century capitalism. Apart from ‘globalization’, many other cartographic and navigational metaphors have been employed to describe the present world order. There is the loss of the ‘magnetic North’; an ‘emerging global civilization’; and a curious notion of an evolving ‘global civil society’. Master concepts like ‘sustainable development’ and ‘world politics’ have consequently become popular and are creeping into international relations discourse. In extreme cases the literature seems to suggest or imply that history is coming to an end on convenient Western socio-cultural terms only. Indeed it seems that proponents of globalization have come to proclaim universality afresh in similar vein to that of those who indulge in and perpetuate the notion of a post-Columbus 500-year capitalist historicism. I do not share the triumphalism of the liberal globalization discourse. It is certainly important to ask whether the wave of technological change, interdependent policy-making, international socialization of production, and time-space compression have or have not come to transcend or replace the complex web of centre-periphery relations. There remains generally a familiar interstate world system, albeit with the spatial and temporal limits to state, market and human interactions experientially compressed. Questions about who rules, who benefits or suffers, and whether prospects for social survival are better or worse remain as important as ever.

From Time-Space Compression to Spatial Spreads

2017 ◽  
pp. 41-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dick Bryan ◽  
Michael Rafferty ◽  
Duncan Wigan
Keyword(s):  
Time Space ◽  
Space Compression

Linguists on the move in the global Landscape?

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Unknown / not yet matched
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Job Market ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Space Compression

Abstract This paper focuses on the sociolinguistic effects of tightening job markets in applied linguistics, and situates the discussion within the time-space compression of late modernist capitalist enterprises using frameworks in the sociolinguistics of mobility, political economy and raciolinguistics. The paper focuses on single-utterance speech acts of reservation conspicuously invoked to frame the discourse of dissent on the part of committee members in high-stakes interview encounters. Focusing on locally-sourced data collected in a publicly-funded, U.S. university, the paper examines how macro-contexts of skill oversaturation in the job market serve to frame enactments of stance in these high-stakes interactional microcosms while pointing to novel epistemological trending in complexity, conviviality and cosmopolitan encounter.

Lest Power Be Forgotten: Networks, Division and Difference in the City

2002 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 505-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Bridge ◽  
Sophie Watson
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Urban Society ◽  
Power Networks ◽  
City Life ◽  
Space Networks ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
The City

Over the last decade we have seen a notable shift in the urban Society literature from discourses of division to discourses of difference. This shift has opened up new ways of understanding the complexities of city life and the formation of heterogeneous subjectivities and identities in the spaces of the city. There has been, we argue, a worrying tendency in this process to lose an analysis of the workings of power, While early Marxist, feminist and race/ethnicity debates were firmly located within a framework which highlighted power, post-structuralist debates have operated with a more fluid notion of power, which at times has become so fluid as to evaporate into thin air. Our intention here in to re-emphasise the significance of power while holding on to the concept of difference. We do this by using the notion of power networks that operate at different temporal and spatial scales. These give the city contrasting spatialities and temporalities that overlap one another. The city is seen as a palimpsest of time-space networks that capture some of the presence of difference as well as suggesting its absences. These time-space networks of power are considered in the material, perceived and imaginary realms in relation to bodies, interests and symbols.

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