>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 21/November/1996 06:28pm >>> >David Harvey's book on postmodernism argues (to summarize in >more than desperate brevity) that the rise of postmodern theory >is a reflection of the rise of postmodern capitalism, i.e., >increased flexibility, decentralization, etc., etc. He's no >postmodernist, BTW. "The rise of pomo-K"? I understand it differently: the crisis of modern-K (which Harvey unfortunately describes in that work as fordism). Then the rise of pomo-K can more accurately be understood as the displacement of mo-K-crisis through the creative utilisation of time and space, plus bits of devalorisation but not enough of a dose yet to clear enough deadwood so as to really get a new round of accumulation -- post-fordism? -- underway. So to read the Brazilian VW story holistically requires bringing in chapters on the vast global overcapacity of vehicle production and the particular devalorisation hits that German VW workers are taking...
