Wednesday, February 01, 2006

some thoughts on "why space?"

so it occurs to me that we kicked up a lot of spatial dust last night, asking some key questions like "what do we mean by space and geographies?" and "what's the difference?" and "how might these metaphors be important, or even relevant for what we want to do and explore?"

what i think we get from the folks who think, talk, and write about space is a way of making sense of some of the changes in ways of being that occuring as our digital landscape continues to evolve. so what? for one, it seems like to consider these changes through spatial lenses might make us pay attention dimensions that we hadn't thought to look at before. but the question remains: why think of these moments/events/changes/ripples/shifts as spaces?

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