Space: embodied, embedded, and unfolding

Chapter Three examines the concepts of space through the common meanings of the term, from which three key characteristics of space emerge: relationality, materiality, and temporality. Relationality reflects embeddedness through three sets of relations: between objects, between observers and objects, and between observers. Materiality reflects embodiment, and temporality indicates time and change. The chapter questions some misconceptions about space: that the concepts of absolute and relational space are irreconcilable; that spatiality corresponds to static simultaneity; that space only refers to physical objects and their relations; that space is disembodied social relations; that cyberspace is immaterial; and that materiality is epiphenomenal in a relational theorization of space.