Space is polarized into opposites only as temporary exclusions, not fixed boundaries.

Evidence

So the dividing of male and female space, outside and inside, varies with the time, the season, the work to be done, and other forces and demands. It is such unstable forces and demands that polarise space, and each polarity occurs only as the temporary exclusion or postponement of its own opposite. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 189

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames a key concept for the whole book: binary oppositions in space are effects of unstable forces rather than structural givens.
• XREF: connects to: Space is the mere possibility of separation, not a set of positive points. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 263