The purpose of addresses is to localize and identify things and people. At the same time, however, addresses generate a spatial order. My talk revolves around the topological order created by Internet addresses. Of course, his answer was 'no'.
Spaces are more than passive loci of social relations.
As if Einstein had never existed, space and time used to be regarded as stable, uniform forces that constrain social development, to be sure, but remain beyond the reach and influence by society. An empty sphere to be filled with objects and actions without ever being changed by what is done within. Both authors argued that time and space should be treated as social products rather than independent, neutral categories. That is to say, spatial configurations of social life are just as much a matter of basic importance to social theory as are the dimensions of temporality. Today, we are able to communicate with absent others.