Doreen Massey: Some times of space - full essay http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/olafureliasson.net/texts/Some_Times_of_Space_by_Doreen_Massey_111195.pdf
Doreen Massey - Some Times of Space
The recognition that everything is constitutively in process by no means implies – or should not imply – a celebration of mobility as opposed to stability, of transience rather than settlement, of flight as against commitment. Mobility is a theme-tune of our times. Mobility, nomadism, flows: a space of flows replaces a space of places; networks instead of territories. But these are descriptions (accurate or not), not prescriptions. Principles as general as this would anyway be problematic. For the world is specific, and structured by inequalities. It matters who moves and how you move. Nomadism is also the mantra of the neoliberal: financial capital is constantly circulating; the factory may be ‘fly-by-night’. (And what of the rights of migration?) The emphasis on the times of space is a reminder of co-agency. This is much more of a spatial challenge, for it raises the question of negotiation.)
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