Lefebvre: violence and nationhood Pt.1

This is the first video in a series I wish to do on Henri Lefebvre's The Production of Space. If you find any of the issues I present here please respond or comment and hopefully we can engage Lefebvre's ideas a little more closely together.

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[tintintabulations]

I'm guessing he's echoing Marx on the Enclosure Acts and primitive accumulation.

I'm not so hot on Lefebvre. He's unreadable and the little I do make out seems banal, a truism or tautological. Space is "produced" through power according to the sociality of moments? (Sure, why not?) For too long we've focused on how capitalism dominated time, whereas we should be paying attention to space? (If you say so?)

Are you reading him for coursework or pleasure?

[NegativeNick]

Pleasure, lol. I still like marxist writings for some light or pleasurable reading but professionally I've moved onto something more substantial, evolutionary theories based on the idea C.P. Snow posited that any good true idea involves both the hard and human sciences

[NegativeNick]

I got my BA in english last year from ucla and now I'm a film studies major at central michigan. I found out about him because I had this crazy idea about inventing a new film theory having to do with the spaces of a film.

I'm having more fun reading Dawkins and this guy Gottschall, he is trying to incorporate evolutionary theory with the study of literature.

[miroma]

Read The Urban Revolution. It makes a lot more sense than The Production of Space, and is much shorter.

As I said in the video that responds to you, Lefebvre was an international socialist, and thus saw nations as being inherently violent and serving the interests of the powerful classes (capitalists and party elite) by dividing the working class and working to produce the uneven geographical development necessary for imperial exploitation.

Also read David Harvey's work.