Lefebvre social space and production of space

SPACE is becoming the principal stake(pay)of goal-directed actions struggles. It has of course always-been the reservoir of resources, and the medium in which strategies are applied, but it has now now become something more than the theatre, the disinterested(ilgisiz,alakasız) stage or setting, of action. Space does not eliminate the other materials or resources that play a part in the socio-political arena, be they raw materials or the most finished of products, be they businesses or "culture". Rather, it brings them all together and then in a sense substitutes(yerine gecme) itself for each factor separately by enveloping it. The result is a vast movement in terms of which space can no longer be looked upon as an "essence", as an object distinct from the point of view of (or as compared "subjects", as answering to a logic of its own. Nor can it treated as result or resultant, as an empirically verifiable effect of a past, a history, or a society. Is space indeed a medium? A milieu? An intermediary? it is dubtless all of these, but its role is less neutral, more and more active, both as an instrument and as goal, as means and as end. Comfining it to so narrow a category as that of "medium" is consequently woefully inadequate.(1991a:410-11, emphasis added)
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There is one question which has remained open in the past because it has never been asked: what exactly is the mode of existence of social relationships? Are they substantial? natural? or formally abstract? The study of space offers an answer according to which the social relations of production have a social existence to the extent that they have a spatial existence; they project themselves in to a space, becoming inscribed there, and in the process producing the space itself.
Failing this, these relations would remain in the realm of "pure" abstraction-that is to say, in the realm of representations and hence of ideology :the realm of verbalism, verbiage and empty words.( 1991a:129; emphasis added)

The message is clear, but few on the Left have been willing to accept its powerful connotations: that all social relations become real and concrete, a part of our lived social existence, only when they are spatially "inscribed"- that is, concretely represented-in the social production of social space. Social reality is not just coincidentally spatial. There is no unspatialized social reality. There are no aspatial social process. Even in the realm of pure abstraction, ideology, and representation, there is a pervasive and pertinent,if often hidden spatial dimension.sojanın acılımı syf 46