Concept

This concept essay returns to a question raised by the author in the 1990s, namely, What space is cyberspace? It explores a framework for understanding space as produced by the interrelation of material, conceptual, and experiential processes. Such an approach allows for an exploration of how subjects and objects not only “occupy” space in material form but also participate in conceptual processes that both reflect and produce those forms in lived, everyday practices. This essay likewise explores the changes within those processes of spatial production over the last three decades, which have given rise to new networked spatial relations. Drawing upon nostalgia studies, the chapter also asks the reader to consider how these changes in networked, spatial production mark social and cultural ruptures within an increasingly networked everyday life.