_Reading*

"The Production of Space" by Henri Lefebvre (1) (2)

. 'Is the rediscovery of time the key to the liberation of space? Or is the re-appropriation of space the key to the liberation of time?'

. 'What would remain of the Church if there were no churches?'

. 'What is seen is not space, but an image of space.'

. 'Time is money, almost everyone agrees. Space isn't money: space is what you buy when you already have (enough) money. And to get (enough) money, you save time, you try to invent or borrow time-saving devices and methods. There's "plenty" of space, but precious little time. Or, rather, thanks to tele- (long distance) technology - such delivery systems as the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, the TV transmitter and the Internet - space no longer matters, it has been transcended overcome as a factor by speed, by ever faster speeds (cf. the writings of Paul Virilio).'

. 'Specialized works keep their audience abreast of all sorts of equally specialized spaces: leisure, work, play, transportation, public facilities -- all are spoken of in spatial terms. Even illness and madness are supposed by some specialists to have their own peculiar space. We are thus confronted by an indefinite multitudes of spaces, each one piled upon, or perhaps contained within, the next: geographical, economic, demographic, sociological, ecological, political, commercial, national, continental, global. Not to mention nature's (physical) space, the space of (energy) flows, and so on.'

. 'A revolution that does not produce a new space has not realized its full potential; indeed it has failed in that it has not changed life itself, but has merely changed ideological superstructures, institutions or political apparatuses. A social transformation, to be truly revolutionary in character, must manifest a creative capacity in its effects on daily life, on language and on space.'

however space might also be transparent and abstract...i still think that it is also something concrete and opaque, something to be experienced and lived (as well as perceived and conceived)...

[these ones seem to be a bit easier to read than the one in the previous post]