Abstract:

Space in the social and historical life of human beings is no longer merely a material property external to humans; rather, it is the spatial practice of human beings as well as its representations. Therefore, from the perspective of critiquing spatial fetishism, the common-sense spatial places and objects are penetrated by the flow of spatial practice and the supply and demand of energy for action. Consequently, the material space in the realm of “real estate” is inevitably transformed into a relational field that constrains the occurrence of social practice. From the critical perspective of contemporary bourgeois spatial production, the scientific methodology of Marx’s Capital can be employed to establish a new critical theory of the political economy of space.

Key words: Lefebvre, Production of Space, spatial fetishism, political economy of space