ABSTRACT
In this chapter we engage with the complex relationships between space, knowledge and power through a consideration of vagueness, vague practices and vague spaces. We argue that interlinked modern processes of the state and capital constitute hegemonic power through processes of xing and enclosure of space, meaning and practice. In such operations, the strange and the vague are represented in a pejorative or marginalized manner, and become the target of order, control and rationalization. Thus we see the possibilities in strangeness and vagueness, and the practices associated with them (such as wandering, rambling, borderless existence), as political activities that run counter to the hegemonic powers of modernity, opening up possibilities for other forms of space and practice.
