Covert Capital by Andrew Friedman

“The geographer Doreen Massey offers, instead, the ‘story’ as the raw building material of space. She uses the story not as a plot with beginning, middle, and end but as ‘simply the history, change, movement, of things themselves.’ She leaves it open to further change by qualifying it: these are ‘stories-so-far,’ not complete ones. Space is not just a flat surface or an empty container, but the ‘meeting-up’ place of these simultaneous stories-so-far, the dynamic point where the widest networks of interrelations and heterogeneity coexist. Stories-so-far have a living history and future and a material presence, both time and space. Connections don’t happen because all places are always connected. These meetings, these stories-so-far, happen because people have a complex agency, they initiate stories, which set off social processes that further make and change the places and the people inside them.”

-Andrew Friedman, 2013