ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a preliminary investigation of the space-time of bodies. At the same time, it may contribute to feminist interrogations of some of the guiding presumptions within the natural sciences—especially physics—and for the social sciences, insofar as they take the natural sciences as their epistemic ideal. The sex assigned to the body (and bodies are assigned a single sex) makes a great deal of difference to the kind of social subject. Psychoanalysis has a good deal to say about how the body is lived and positioned as a spatio-temporal being. The exploration of conceptions of space and time as necessary correlates of the exploration of corporeality. In place of the Euclidean grid in which Newton's conjectures were developed, Albert Einstein relied on topological representations of space in which shape is not relevant, where one shape can be transformed into another.
