1995
DOI: 10.1068/d130529
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The Incredible Shrinking World? Technology and the Production of Space

Abstract: This paper is about the role of technology in the transformation of space, and the ways in which these changes are represented. These processes are explored principally through critical analysis of the work of Harvey and Lefebvre; more specifically, I contrast the place of technology as expressed through their varied emphases on the annihilation of space, and the production of space. The dramatic restructuring of space and time in recent decades, associated with new high-speed geographies of production, exchan… Show more

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“…Importantly for geographers, such technologies allow for the commodification in turn of particular kinds of spaces and their associated timeframes, such as those produced by the acts of transporting goods, providing services, travelling distances and so on (Kirsch 1995). While much has been made of the notion of a 'shrinking' world, as successive (mostly transport and telecommunications) technologies allow for the 'triumph' of time over space (Castells 1996;Harvey 1989a), more nuanced work on the disjunctures produced by the rubbing together of distanciated and intimate spaces, accelerated and slowed times, has done much to illuminate the differential and contingent work accomplished by these technologies (Glennie and Thrift 2002).…”
Section: Geographies Of Technology In Contextmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Importantly for geographers, such technologies allow for the commodification in turn of particular kinds of spaces and their associated timeframes, such as those produced by the acts of transporting goods, providing services, travelling distances and so on (Kirsch 1995). While much has been made of the notion of a 'shrinking' world, as successive (mostly transport and telecommunications) technologies allow for the 'triumph' of time over space (Castells 1996;Harvey 1989a), more nuanced work on the disjunctures produced by the rubbing together of distanciated and intimate spaces, accelerated and slowed times, has done much to illuminate the differential and contingent work accomplished by these technologies (Glennie and Thrift 2002).…”
Section: Geographies Of Technology In Contextmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Imagery of globalization all too often depicts an endless process of acceleration going handin-hand with a dematerialization until electronic communications create global instantaneitysummed up in the powerful figure of the shrinking world of time space compression (Kirsch, 1995). There are well known criticisms that the pattern is clearly more intricately variegated than such unidirectional accounts suggest (Crang, 2007).…”
Section: Globality Materiality and Unbecoming Thingsmentioning
confidence: 94%
“…Its complexity decreases the explanatory value of (over-)simplistic approaches such as the cartoonish 'shrinking world' metaphor, and the subsequent Internet shrinking rather than recasting spatial impacts (Kirsch 1995). v These links function at level 3 of the OSI model.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%