'Space'
is created out of the vast intricacies, the incredible complexities, of
the interlocking and the non-interlocking, and the networks of relations
at every scale from local to global. What makes a particular view of these
social relations specifically spatial is their simultaneity. It is a simultaneity,
also, which has extension and configuration. But simultaneity is absolutely
not stasis. Seeing space as a moment in the intersection of configured
social relations (rather than as an absolute dimension) means that it
cannot be seen as static. There is no choice between flow (time) and a
flat surface of instantaneous relations (space). Space is not a 'flat'
surface in that sense because the social relations which create it are
themselves dynamic by their very nature. It is a question of a manner
of thinking.
Doreen Massey
'Politics and Space/Time' in Keith & Pile: Place and the Politics of Identity
(Routledge 1993).