Enid Arvidson.Cognitive Mapping and Class Politics: Towards a Nondeterminist Image of the City. RM 8(2):8-23 "Proposes a postmodern Marxist understanding of spatial relations that avoids a previous emphasis on reductionist logic. Through a respectful critique of Frederic Jameson's (1991) work on postmodern space and the LA (Los Angeles [CA]) school's analysis of the built environment in the era of late capitalism, it is found that these thinkers constructed a postmodern spatiality that is presented as a simple superstructural effect of the economy; the economy, in turn, is understood as the complete space of capital. This totalization of economy and space, however, precludes autonomous places for struggle outside of the LA school's postmodern hyperspace. Although they claim to have mapped economic reality instead of portraying discursively constructed social processes, it is argued that the LA school's approach actually disables radical politics and obscures forms of exploitation. A more fragmented understanding of the economy that contains a multiplicity of class relations is called for that would point out alternative routes for political struggle and social change. 49 References. J. Cowie"