The Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture Pages 337-343

        In this last section of chapter eight the book talks about postmodern space, geography, and the built environment. Just reading the title I had no idea what this section would be about, but after reading it I now know it's about the separation of time and space because of the urbanization and communication between technologies that our world experiences today. One of the primary issues that lingers over the concepts of postmodernism is "the degree in which they are a response to the fading and shifting aspects of modernism and the degree to which they signal a new era of some kind, a new episteme, a new way of thinking and being, a new way of making art, popular culture, and buildings, a new way of writing fiction, and so on" (pg. 343). We do not live in a world that is postmodern, but in a world where the tensions of modernity and postmodernity are active and present. Globalization's production of a wide economic divide has caused global capitalism to stray further away from the center of economic wealth and technological advancement.