VV(11): Space/Time Employment Agency cont'd ...

[Dave Monroe]

"Space/Time Employment Agency" (V., Ch. 8, sec i, p. 215)

On the other hand, keep in mind the three fundamental rules of real
estate: location, location, location.  And nowhere are rules of real
estate more fundamental than on Manhattan Island, no?  Or so I hear ...

It has been pointed out to me that the location of the Space/Time
Employment Agency, "down on lower Broadway, near Fulton Street" (p.
215), approaches, at least as far as Manhattan Island itself is
concerned (more on beyond to follow) the southernmost limit of the
subway line (the Lexington, presumably, but possibly the Broadway, 7th
Avenue?  Again, everything I know about New York I learned on the
Internet), the apocheir of the yo-yo line, Benny must take.  These take
a little time to load (esp. the second one), but they're quite helpful
(esp. the second one) ...

http://www.nycsubway.org/maps/historical/1951_b.jpg

http://www.nycsubway.org/maps/historical/1959_a.gif

Leaving Benny and placing the S/TEA (by the way, did check that handy
http://acronymfinder.com/, but all I came up with was "Software Test
Environment Architecture") apparently not only near the famed Fulton
Fish Market, but also within walking distance of the even more famed
Wall Street Financial District.  Which 
in light of previous speculations of Benny's concerning economics (among
other things) seems perhaps significant.

Considering the "employment," the use of "space" and/or "time," I am
most immediately put in mind of the following ...

"'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future:
who controls the                      present controls the past.'"
--George Orwell, 1984 (London: Secker & Warburg, 1949)

... but I am reminded as well of the pervasiveness of capital in
late/postmodernism, not to mention of the "spatial turn," "the
displacement of time, the spatialization of the temporal" Fredric
Jameson identifies as a hallmark of postmodernism, "or, the cultural
logic of late capitalism."   See, of course ...

Jameson, Fredric.  "Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of
   Late Capitalism."  New Left Review 146 (July-August 1984): 59-92.

Which is more or less also ...

__________.  "Postmodernism and Consumer Society." The Anti-Aesthetic:
   Essays on Postmodern Culture.  Ed. Hal Foster. Port Townsend, WA:
   Bay Press, 1983. 111-25

Also found in ...

__________.  "Postmodernism and Consumer Society." Postmodern Culture.
   Ed. Hal Foster.  Sydney: Pluto Press, 1985.

Or, more generally ...

__________.  Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late
   Capitalism.  Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1991.

And see as well ...

Harvey, David.  The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry
   into the Origins of Cultural Change.  Cambridge, MA:
   Basil Blackwell, 1989.

And sorry about those missing carriage returns in my "History Unfolds"
post.  They were there when I sent it, but I've been sending myself
notes from machines all over the city lately, who knows what happened in
the translation ...