(no subject)
With the advent of modernity time has vanished from social space. It is recorded solely on measuring-instruments, on clocks, that are isolated and functionally specialized as this time itself. Lived time loses its form and its social interest -- with the exception, that is, of time spent working. Economic space subordinates time to itself; political space expels it as threatening and dangerous (to power). The primacy of the economic and above all of the political implies the supremacy of space over time.
Lefebvre's production of space basically outlined
1.Spatial Practice
33 which embraces production and reproduction, . . . Spatial practice ensures continuity and some degree of cohesion.
-- p. 38 The spatial practice of a society secretes that society's space; it propounds and presupposed it, in a dialectical interaction; it produces it slowly and surely as it masters and appropriates it.
e.g. In the Middle Ages -- embraced not only the network of local roads ... but also the main roads bewteen towns and the great pilgrims' ways.
2. Representation of space:
--p. 33 tied to the relations of production and to the 'order.'
-- p. 38 conceptualized space, the space of scientists, planners, urbanists, technocratic subdiverders and social engineers. . . all of whom identify what is lived and what is percieved with what is conceived.
--e.g. In the Middle Ages -- including the Earth, the world, the Cosmos, ... a fixed sphere within a finite space, diametrically bisected by the surface of the Earth; below is Hell, and above the Firmament.
3. Representational spaces:
--p. 33 embody complex symbolisms, sometimes coded, sometimes not, linked to the clandestine or underground side of social life, as also to art.
-- p. 39 space as directly lived through its associated images and symbols, and hence the space of 'inhabitants' and 'users,' but also of some artists and perhaps of those, such as a few writers and philosophers, who describe and aspire to do no more than describe.
--e.g. In the Middle Ages -- the village church, graveyard, hall and fileds, or the square and the belfry.
e.g. In the Middle Ages --
absolute space -- made up of fragments of nature. . . but [the sites'] very consecration ended up by stripping them of their natural characteristics and uniqueness. . .. religious and political in character, was a product of the bonds of sanguinity, soil and language, but out of it evolved a space which was relativized and historical. p. 48
abstract space -- . . . the forces of history smashed naturalness forever and upon its ruins established the space of accumulation (the accumulation of all wealth and resources: knowledge, technology, money, precious objects, works of art and symbols).
Lefebvre's production of space basically outlined
1.Spatial Practice
33 which embraces production and reproduction, . . . Spatial practice ensures continuity and some degree of cohesion.
-- p. 38 The spatial practice of a society secretes that society's space; it propounds and presupposed it, in a dialectical interaction; it produces it slowly and surely as it masters and appropriates it.
e.g. In the Middle Ages -- embraced not only the network of local roads ... but also the main roads bewteen towns and the great pilgrims' ways.
2. Representation of space:
--p. 33 tied to the relations of production and to the 'order.'
-- p. 38 conceptualized space, the space of scientists, planners, urbanists, technocratic subdiverders and social engineers. . . all of whom identify what is lived and what is percieved with what is conceived.
--e.g. In the Middle Ages -- including the Earth, the world, the Cosmos, ... a fixed sphere within a finite space, diametrically bisected by the surface of the Earth; below is Hell, and above the Firmament.
3. Representational spaces:
--p. 33 embody complex symbolisms, sometimes coded, sometimes not, linked to the clandestine or underground side of social life, as also to art.
-- p. 39 space as directly lived through its associated images and symbols, and hence the space of 'inhabitants' and 'users,' but also of some artists and perhaps of those, such as a few writers and philosophers, who describe and aspire to do no more than describe.
--e.g. In the Middle Ages -- the village church, graveyard, hall and fileds, or the square and the belfry.
e.g. In the Middle Ages --
absolute space -- made up of fragments of nature. . . but [the sites'] very consecration ended up by stripping them of their natural characteristics and uniqueness. . .. religious and political in character, was a product of the bonds of sanguinity, soil and language, but out of it evolved a space which was relativized and historical. p. 48
abstract space -- . . . the forces of history smashed naturalness forever and upon its ruins established the space of accumulation (the accumulation of all wealth and resources: knowledge, technology, money, precious objects, works of art and symbols).