> I am curious as to how you see this
> 'everywhere space'
Henri Lefebvre (sp? I am too lazy to get up and go look at the spine of the
book, which is in the bedroom) wrote a book called "The Social Construction
of Space", which deals rather sharply with the ways in which philosophers
like Foucault and Derrida use spatial metaphors. One thing I think Chris and
myself may have in common is a fondness for terms such as "mapping", "plane",
"topography" etc.. Mathematical entities like Riemann spheres (where you map
everything outside the sphere inside it, and vice versa) and fractals (where
you crinkle the crinkles into themselves, ad infinitum, and my apologies if
I'm teaching anyone to suck eggs here) often show up in this manner of
speaking as well. Lefebvre thinks that this is overly vague, and that the
spatial and topographical tropes that often glue together discussions of
social, political and psychological "fields" or "domains" ought to be
interrogated and placed into a more concrete setting. Foucault would say that
was what he was doing already, of course.
Dominic
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