Furthermore, in Harvey’s interpretation, the
transcendence of global capital over local domains
thrives on shortened time horizons and on the ability
to eradicate distance as an inhibitor to exchange and
dominance. The ability of capital to shift resources to
different places easily, and often with impunity to the
disruption of life at the local scale, suggests that timespace compression may denigrate the importance of
place in human society. It is in the inherent mobility
and speed of such possible actions that time–space
compression challenges any attempts to define the
time–space nature of society too rigidly.