Thirding-as-othering

From Geography

For Lefebvre the logic of binarism that is a consequence of categories was problematic. He attempted to introduce 'the other' as the third term in order to formulate an answer to this problematic logic. Categories such as subject-object, mental-material, natural-social etc had to be completed by a third a term. Soja describes this thirding-as-othering as "the first and most important step in transforming the categorical and closed logic of either/or to the dialectically open logic of both/and also..." The third-as-other is not just a new term that stands between the to opposites but it creates a disordering, a deconstruction and a reconstruction of the opposites (Soja, 1996). Thirding-as-othering is the basis of the concept of Thirdspace.

References

• Soja, E.W. (1996). The extraordinary voyages of Henri Lefebvre; The trialectics of spatiality. In Thirdspace: Journeys to los Angeles and other real-and-imagined place. Blackwell: Oxford.

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