Harvey links this increased time–space compression to a crisis in accumulation of capitalism as we move from the modern to the postmodern era (see Chapter 4). He is careful to draw out the cultural roots and implications of this. Capitalism itself is a culture, and the impacts of time–space compression in the cultural sphere are important as identity ‘melts into air’ and people search for ‘secure moorings and longer-lasting values in a shifting world’ (p. 293). Ultimately the argument places an economic rationale at the core and this has been criticized by new cultural geographers especially. The links with his ideas and WST are apparent when he says: ‘We have, in short, witnessed another fierce round in that process of annihilation of space through time that has always lain at the centre of capitalism’s dynamic’