ABSTRACT
Even if the two poles of absolute and relative are resisted, space and distance can still be said to take place between two points. Here however reciprocity is also at work since their separate existence as points is itself dependent upon space and distance. This is not intended to be a geometrical claim, for the points in question function as no more than markers of that separation and, thereby, of that which is separated. The relationship between these ‘points’ could be envisaged as one of radical separation, two points in chronological time; or interdependent separation, self and other; or even one to be overcome, the separation between mode and object of interpretation. In each instance distance and space are essential. How then are they to be understood? The question is one of a beginning; of developing an approach to space.1
