Space for Everything (A Commentary)

[We] constantly have to take into account the simultaneity and extension of events and possibilities. . . . There are many reasons why this should be so: the scale of modem power; the degree of personal responsibility that must be accepted for events all over the world; the fact that the world has become indivisible; the unevenness of economic development within that world; the scale of exploitation. All these play a part. Prophesy now involves a geographical rather than historical projection: it is space not time that hides consequences from us. -John Berger The Look of Things, 1974