ight spacesNight is more than what meets the senses. It is also more than the absence or negation of day. Night is a social product mediated by social relationships and practices, discursive and otherwise. Indeed, night is more than a time of day. It is also a space---or more appropriately, spaces---in which we live our lives.
Night is expressed culturally in often contradictory products. Stories, myths, literatures, and ideologies are filled with references to night: night as a time of repose with its conventional places for leisure and sleep; and night as a time of danger, even horror, with the darkness shrouding the Reason which emanates from the human use (and perhaps over-emphasis) on visuality.
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