On The David Havey's Of Time-Space Compression

The formation of the concept of space-time is not a priori, but rather change with the change of the social production and life experience and reflection, while the view of time and space itself is not a negative reflection of the production and life, but has a constitutive power. Since the Age of Enlightenment, the ever-changing of space-time picture just be one-dimensional of the continuous development of capitalism.Based on thie space-time theory, David·Harvey proposed the theory of time-space compression. The sources of theory of time-space compression to a large extent is a Marxist time and space.The point is that the change power of their space-time picture is driven from the characteristics of capitalism itself, that is capital continuously pursuit of proliferation. The pursuit of capital led to the planning of capital to time and space.So from the perspective of space-time picture,it can overall grasp the symptom of the economic, political and culture of capitalism.David·Harvey thought that since the inception of capitalism,constant acceleration and development of time move from linear to an involution of the trend, unlimited extension of the homogeneous time picture was broken and replaced by an time picture that now replace the past and the future.The result is now as the only fulcrum of time picture finally exploded,because of assuming too much rich content. At the same time, the acceleration of the time means that barriers of space is constantly broken. Ultimately, the homogenized space is eventually conquered by time, but to replace it is in a specific sense of resurrection of space, while the regenerative space is concentrated in the cultural sense.Thereby, David·Harvey described that post-modernism has not escaped from the nest of time-space compression, but only the new form of, time-space compression in the contemporary. Post-modernism as a cultural style of the formation is essentially a product of the process of time-space compression, the change of cultural style of Post-modernism is not a change and rebellion of capitalist production and lifestyle, on the contrary, the changes of post-modernism itself only is the result in the process of capitalist development. This solved the Daniel·Bell's doubt about Marxism in contemporary explanatory power, and also solved the Daniel·Bell and others's over understanding of the post-modernism. It proof that post-modernism is only a limited qualitative change.