A space is a set of relations, defined by its unique extension across space and time. A space between two trees can be a passageway for wind, a window, a place to hang a hammock, a distance invisibly traversed by underground roots, an arboreal interruption. Yes, it depends on what you want it to be, but it also depends on there being, at this moment, two very real trees separated by a malleable but very real distinction.
So a space between people, a political space, is always defined by its unique extension across space and time. Here we have the simplest human unit, if we care to define it as such: two people. Between these two people, there is space and time, measurable or understandable or knowable only by the presence of an interruption, something passing between: a thought, a handshake, a message. An effect.
So let’s look at the effect, defined as we wish to define it by its unique extension across space and time and by the similarly unique extension of our two people. We can ask any number of questions. What is the structure of their relationship? How do we define their interaction in a way that exists for long enough to watch it happen? Why have they decided to be here, now?
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