Postmodernism, Post-Fordism, and Critical Social Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4881438 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nadja Albertsen (0000-0002-6774-9492, Aarhus School of Architecture, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 339-365 |
| Publication date | 1988-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d060339 |
| OpenAlex | W1969883950 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 37 |
| References cited | 37 |
The relationship between the transformation of advanced capitalist societies from Fordism to post-Fordism and the simultaneous rise within these societies of postmodern culture is investigated. In art and architecture the exhaustion of high-modernist aesthetic progressivism resulted in a postmodern 'condition' of 'free disposability' of aesthetic materials which was furthered by societal developments such as the dissolution of the Fordist model of standardized consumption into diversified and aesthetizised consumption, the rise of an experimenting culture industry after the youth revolt of the 1960s, the growth of the service class, and the advent of 'disposability' in regard to ways and styles of living. In social philosophy a general delegitimation of the grand narratives of progress and emancipation occurred as 'high-Fordism' gave way to stagnating 'late-Fordism' and fragmented 'post-Fordism'. In this process the technocratic-statist narrative of Fordism itself and the labor utopia of the industrial working class lost credibility, without any emergence of convincing utopian or grand reformist alternatives. The spatial (global-local) aspects of these transformations are emphasized and the paper concludes with some left-critical considerations which stress the democratic potential of postmodernism and its openness towards local alliances protective against the powers of global capitals and centralized states
Aesthetics · Capitalism · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Epistemology · Fordism · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Sociology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
Tourism Urbanization
Capital Restructuring and the New Built Environment of Global Cities
The Restless Urban Landscape
Race and Ethnicity
Postmodernism
Tourist Cities as New Cities
The role of ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ factors for accommodating creative knowledge
Creative cities
From the Body of the Prince to Mickey Mouse
Networks and performance of creative cities
Fordism at Ford
The provision of low-cost housing in developing countries
Re‐reading the city
Ideas, spaces and ‘sovereigntyscapes’
Creative Cities
Descendants of Ascendant Cities and Other Urban Dualities
Where is the ‘Promised Land’
Geostrategies for both power and peace in KwaZulu-Natal
Accumulation, regulation and the geographies of post-Fordism
Can the Region Survive Post-Modernism
Socio‐Economic change within the older housing stock of Canadian cities
Mines and quarries
Domesticating Postmodernism
Postmodernism and the City
Postmodernism and the Localities Debate
Uneasy Alliances
Society, Space and Citizenship
Embellishing nature
The Cultural Economy of Cities
Tradition through Modernity
Postmodernism and the New Middle Class
Survey 15. A Regulation Approach to the Geography of Flexible Production Systems
Social Reproduction in a Post-Fordist Era
Between Modernity and Postmodernity
Some Spatial Aspects of Regulatory and Technological Change in Telecommunication Industries
Not Flexible Accumulation-Contradictions of Value in Contemporary Economic Geography
The Disorganization of America
Processes of the world-system
High technology, space, and society
Marxism and literature
The cultural contradictions of capitalism
The end of organized capitalism
Der Wohlfahrtsstaat im Übergang vom Fordismus zum Postfordismus
Class, Division of Labour and Employment in Space
Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art
The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism
Det utholdte nullpunkt
Cruising around the Historical Bloc
The Politics of Postmodernism
The Routinization of Charismatic Modernism and the Problem of Post-Modernity
High Technology, World Development, and Structural Transformation
Past or Post Modern in Architectural Fashion
Post-Analytic Philosophy
The Decline of the Modern Age
Modernism vs. Postmodernism
Truth, Semblance, Reconciliation
Modern Art and Desublimation
Postmodernism and Cultural Practice
Flexible Accumulation Through Urbanization
Critical Theory and the Culture Industries
Flexible Integration, Scope Economies, and Strategic Alliances
Epistemologies of Postmodernism
The Politics of Theory
New Technologies, New Modes of Regulation
Localities, regions and social class
Mapping the Postmodern
(Post)Modern Polemics
Viewpoint
Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture
A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism
The Crisis of Liberal Democratic Capitalism
Hegemony and Mass Culture
| Unique citing works | 37 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2025 (37) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 33 |