In a distinct variant of this spatio-temporal motif, David Harvey, in his nowclassic
1990 study The Condition of Postmodernity, argues that globalization represents
a new burst of ‘time-space compression’ produced by the very dynamics of
capitalist development. While Harvey’s concept is similar to that of Giddens, the
former’s involves a normative critique of the global capitalist order and its restructuring
whereas the latter would seem to be almost celebratory. What Harvey means
by time-space compression is the process whereby time is reorganized in such a way
as to reduce the constraints of space, and vice-versa