ABSTRACT
The enormity of the terms strikes as I wander the arcane space of a university library. The vastness of the collision of the two terms fills rows upon rows, an entire section that stands as a frontier bastion of philosophy. These are hard concepts: ‘time’ and ‘space’ sort out the men from the boys, the real philosophers from the mere cultural theorists. At the same time, the argument that there is ‘little sense to be had from making distinctions between space and time – there is only space-time’ (Thrift, 1993: 93) may sort out the geographers from the rest.
