ABSTRACT
This chapter explores spatial modernities, and the geographical narratives and imaginaries by which they are woven together. It focuses on the spaces of modernity, understood in the broadest sense of the term, and its aim is to trace an arc from the spatial imaginaries resulting from the early modern voyages of discovery to the spatial orders and disorders of late modernity. Throughout the series, Lost disorients its viewers through spatial and temporal shifts, complexities and inconsistencies; flash-forwards, flashbacks and flash-sideways create an ever more complicated filmic time-space rather than a gradual reduction of spatio-temporal uncertainty. The spatial imaginaries analyzed by the contributors of Spatial Modernities testify to the longue duree of space, the multiplicity of spatial trajectories and the contradictory spatialities in different manifestations of modernity. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
