ПРОСТОР И РОБНО ДРУШТВО
SPACE AND COMMODITY-BASED SOCIETY

Summary/Abstract: The space is privileged in the commodity-based society. It is well known that the economic space in the 19th and 20th centuries rapidly managed to subordinate all other areas "conveying and instilling in them their own meanings and goals" (G. Milatović). A new form of space that qualifies commodity society was created, marked by dualities: openness-closeness, private-public, sameness-difference. This paper is an attempt to criticize the usual analysis of the categories of commodity-space, linked to the ambivalent role of the state as a guarantor of the functioning of the commodity-based society, as well as its controling instance. The increasing delocalisation of the political changes the nature of the space in the commodity-based society. Privileged areas are produced that create an illusion of protection of consumers (shopping malls, gated communities, theme parks, video surveillence), while at the same time social differentiation and identification are produced through the symbolic order of commodities and a sense of inclusion or exclusion from that order.

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