Killary Harbour, Delphi Valley
Connemara
Co. Galway, Ireland
July 2004
Is there a way out of this trap? We must learn not to privilege the idea of essential reality or truth. We must become comfortable with the fact that our realities are in fact discourses. This does not make them unreal or untrue, nor does it mean that when I recognize myself as a discursive concept that I vanish. If we can move beyond the struggle of trying to identify the body outside of discourse, then we can move on to examine things like why a particular discursive body is used in Argument X, or why I live Body A on Monday and Body B on Tuesday. There is nothing wrong with Lefebvre’s using a discursive body in his understanding of space, but he should have accepted it as a discursive body rather than as a total body.
 by Meg Butler
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