We began the idea of ‘exceptional space’ out of a seminar on ‘indifference’. We – professor and students – perhaps should have known events would occur that could both validate our idea and then turn it upside down; these are the events that can appear and transform quicker than academies can respond, quicker than our intellectual or metropolitan formations can take on board. We are swamped. We now have E-space, Extra-Space, Migrant Space, Diasporic Space, and a whole host of liminal spaces become real zones of spatial, trans-political and existential ambiguity. All sorts of variations follow.