It was primarily in this last sense that I first deployed the term “spatial fix” to describe
capitalism’s insatiable drive to resolve its inner crisis tendencies by geographical expansion
and geographical restructuring. The parallel with the idea of a “technological fix” was
deliberate. Capitalism, we might say, is addicted to geographical expansion much as it is
addicted to technological change and endless expansion through economic growth. Globa- lization is the contemporary version of capitalism’s long-standing and never-ending search
for a spatial fix to its crisis tendencies. Since there is a long history to these spatial fixes,
there is a deep continuity (as I and many others have insisted) in the production of space
under capitalist social relations and imperatives. There is, from this perspective, nothing
particularly new or surprising about globalization since it has been going on since at least
1492 if not before