These connections are what allow the fluctuation of signification. Cyberspace is public space. Public space is architecture and zones of concepts, forms and ideology, whose abstract truth is imposed on the reality of the senses, bodies and desires. Distances are marked with objects and symbols, directions, prohibitions, warnings and traces of being lived in. Activity in a space is restricted by that space.
Space enforces cultural structure and law because it implies order and intended use.
Space commands and manipulates bodies and behaviors, routines, distances to be covered, navigated. Mounting pressures at the intersections of public space erupt into crisis. At anxious junctures, narrative insistence, which shapes the dimensions and dynamics of an event, burdens it with the possibility of imminent consequence. This collision produces conflict and discussion and reinscribes meaning. The favela is a living contradiction.