ABSTRACT
Spaceless spaces are the geographical expressions of a denial in which emptiness figures as a substitute for living meaning and matter. Spaceless spaces an outrageous contradiction in terms, a paradoxical oxymoron, but also the exact expression of an ideology in which denial of denial and other defense mechanisms are rife, and words seldom mean what they mean. On an allegorical path to a critique of modern power, through the spaceless spaces of planning, there is a Castle and a Trial, a Lock and a Process. Olsson focuses on planning as an art of forcing together divergent levels of decision making into one mould. This mode of critique, describing how the hermetic logic of spatial structures are ontologically transformed into social relations and vice-versa, gives further empirical detail to what was argued in Birds in Egg. Olsson's authorship also encloses an unmistakable portion of Kafkaesque humor, but seems to lend a more optimistic ear to the power of laughter.
