This weeks reading is from this book, Chapter 2, Social Space, pages 68 to 85. Despite the text hardly being the easiest read, it is quite reasonable for you to get the basic drift of what Lefebvre is on about (the consideration of 'space' in a more specific way than 'nice space' and also a broader conception of it's formulation according to perhaps better criteria than capitalism applies) and be able to make some inroads in to an understanding of what might for instance be the difference between a 'work' and a 'product' and further wonder at what precisely he finds good in Venice.
Given our discussion of Eagleton, it is perhaps worth considering that the inquisition into the real as exemplified in the work of Roland Barthes, Caude Levi Strauss, Michel Foucault and so on was also a response to the abuse of truth manifested by Nazi ideology with such horrific consequences in WW2, as well as our need to come to terms with the new consumerist world characterized by an onslaught of advertising.
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