9/18/2023 0 Comments Time space compression org![]() ![]() Faster transportation facilities, as train and automobile, reduced time of spatial displacement. The development of transportation and communication facilities, during the XIX and XX centuries, represented a rupture factor of this correspondence, due time acceleration. Time, on the other hand, was defined according to the necessary duration to travel a given space using the same resources (Bauman 2000). The space definition corresponded to the trajectory using resources as the human body or hunt, like riding. In other words, meant the amount of effort applied in order to man walk by a certain distance. While man used only natural mobility tools, the biunivocal correspondence between time and space dimensions predominated, in a way that “far” and “long”, just like “near” and “soon” were used almost as synonyms. There are some examples in history that searches to explain how the time-space wedlock became two different concepts: the astronomers measuring the velocity and the distances of celestial bodies, or Newton calculating the exact relations between acceleration and the distance passed by the 'physical body', or even Kant, the philosopher, conceiving time and space as “two transcendentally separate and mutually independent categories of human cognition” (Bauman 2000:111). Time and space dimensions in the contemporary societyĪccording to Bauman (2000), time as a measurable concept, as history, began in modernity. And yet, we cannot longer imagine a period when was necessary to wait and to grub carefully the unknown.ġ. We seek to extinguish the barriers from time and from space. The search for instantaneity, that marked the humankind for many centuries, continues even more avid. The values we follow and defend are more volatile, as the relations between people and between human being with the world they live in. The feeling of living at a liquid atmosphere is what Bauman understands as the essence of the contemporary society. This means that this society can not remain structured for a long time. This “liquid-modern” kind of life is a way of living at the liquid modernity presented by Bauman wherein the members act under conditions that change in a shorter time than the necessary for consolidation of habits and routines, also ways of action (Bauman 2009). In other words, the possibility of moving easier and faster as lighter we travel. And it is this mobility and inconstancy of fluids that assimilates them to the idea of lightness. As explained by Bauman (2000:2) “and so for them it is the flow of time that counts, more than the space they happen to occupy: that space, after all, they fill but ‘for a moment’”. ![]() ![]() They do not have a pre-defined shape and they are constantly ready, and prone, to change it. Therefore, the article discusses the breakdown of the two-way relationship between space and time – brought by Bauman (2000) –, the compression process presented by Harvey (1992).įluids or liquids neither fix space nor bind time. This paper intends to comprehend and discuss the transformations of the representation of the world by instant communication and mobility. The phenomenon of compression also reflected in the representation of the world, in a way that the perception of shrinkage experienced throughout history – the once vast world – has been reduced to a global village. Faculdade Cásper Líbero, São Paulo, accelerating pace of life and overcoming spatial barriers marked the history of capitalism and that seems to have caused a compression process of the two dimensions (time and space). ![]()
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