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putting new concepts in the place of the old
ones (Koçyiğit, 2012: 98-113). This might be
interpreted as liberation and in this respect
Capitalism can be considered to be the most
opened and the most closed period to deterri-
torialization. Because Capitalism seems to be
promoting the increase of the new, but this is
always a “new” rising on the base of exchan-
ge principle (Colebrook, 2009: 82-99).
Another interpretation about deterritorializa-
tion is that it is the loss of the natural ties bet-
ween the every-day life culture and the geog-
raphical & social ground (Tomlinson, 2004:
147-204). In other words,
deterritorialization
is not the end of local, but the transformation
of the local into a complicated cultural space.
Depending on all of these ideas, the concept
of “deterritorialization” might be explained as
not belonging to anywhere, but everywhere.
Digital Age
Another notion related with non-place is the
digital age which has been shown as the cau-
se disappearance of the borders, making any
place or any event accessible. But beyond
these characteristics, it brought new expan-
sions of space. Kaçmaz (2004: 8) specifies
these digitally supported spaces as cyberspa-
ce, hyperspace and exospace and signifies all
of them as
“the other of architecture”. They
all have spatial qualities but cannot be con-
sidered to be architectural spaces as nobody
really lives in them. Cyberspace is the intan-
gible world of digital information that can be
accessed through the Internet. Hyperspace is
created where the user observes reactions to
his movements in real-time as a result of his
physical connection to the computer by some
tools. Exospace is a digitally supported ext-
raterrestrial space. Kaçmaz (2004: 42) argues
that industrial revolution has given architects
the concept of space whereas digital revolu-
tion its opposite. These non-architecturally
spatial entities cause decentralization and so
that the power is non-localized. Hence this si-
tuation brings mobility.
Coyne (2007: 26-38) compares virtual reality
and non-places and emphasises some simila-
rities between them. He argues that whereas
rich, meaningful or just everyday places are
cognitively enabling and facilitate thinking;
non-places and spaces of virtual reality do not
evoke the individual to think. In both of them
the person is instructed by some commands,
therefore they become cognitively deficient
spaces. There is no need for personal thought
in them. Even though virtual reality has the
potential of being cognitively very rich, it ge-
nerally serves like a container of cognition.
Cognition does not attend to its material fab-
ric. Virtual reality is generally criticized by
missing out on the subtleties of spatiality that
enable thought to take place. Non-place and
virtual reality resemble in this aspect, they