Means of Production

“we do not live, act, and work ‘in’ space so much as by living, acting, and working we produce space.”

Neil Smith, 1984 (Uneven Development.  Cambridge MA: Basil Blackwell.  Pg 85)

Freedom of Space

“Moreover, whenever the man-made world does not become the scene of action and speech – as in despotically ruled communities which banish their subjects into the narrowness of the home and thus prevent the rise of a public realm – freedom has no worldly reality. Without a politically guaranteed public realm, freedom lacks the worldly space to make its appearance”

-Hannah Arendt, “What is Freedom” (via (Notes On) Politics, Theory, and Photography).

Home is where the books are

“Once you’ve packed and unpacked as many books [as I have in my move to New York in 1999], then that’s where you live!”

-Salman Rushdie, 2008 (via Space & Culture)