2. Yet by the impact of media, is being more and more difficult to specify a 'public space' or to distinguish a place that generates an 'ideal' public life from a place that reflects a false copy of it. Moreover is being very difficult to specify the space where power acts, to distinguish the false from the real. Ideology is being used as the mask that facilitates interrelations. So the public space seems to have been 'de-ideologicalized', and being converted to a correlation of phenomena, empty of content, with main characteristic, their ability to interchange significations and communicate with each other.
3. 'Electronic space', the space of networks, can provoke a new way of perception
of public space. Public space can be formed not only by the identity of the
place and the common (by place) identity of its inhabitants. A new kind of
public space can rise out of the 'simultaneity' of the network. This space
is being organized by its 'temporality', not by its 'locality'. This means,
by a network of events that are being organized simultaneously and are being
interconnected, and so its nature depends on their simultaneous participation
and coexistence.
A substance of place is being organized, that can be called, like Castells
did: the public 'space of flows'. A network of nodes is forming this space.
These nodes can refer to specific places or not. The place that forms in combination
does not depend on the 'locality' of these nodes, but on their capability
to make interconnections. By this way they make 'incorporations' with the
use of time, this means that this kind of place is being formed by events
that happen simultaneously. Main characteristic of this 'space of flows' is
that it is transformable and fluid. It doesn't have a stable construction,
but is being constantly transformed, according to the temporal coincidences
of the events, containing every time deferent nodes.
4. We can finally ask the following question: The 'simulacrum of public space'
has somewhere a prototype, with its true or false copies having the meaning
of simulations of the public space? Or the public space is being constructed
continuously transforming their copies and producing new ones, as a 'copy
without prototype', and public life a surface where the phenomena are being
interconnected and by this way producing meanings?
