Time–space compression – refers to the annihilation of space through time that lies at the core of capitalism (Harvey, 1989). Concepts of convergence and distanciation do not offer an explanation for why social relations are stretched across space. Geographer David Harvey, in The Condition of Postmodernity (1989), provided an argument which has been of central influence in the way geographers think about the relationship between time–space and globalization. He suggests: