In this paper, the author wants to look at notions of "space", in order to examine why "space is in the midst of a renaissance" (Kaplan, 1996, p. 147), why it is, as it were, "back on the map". His intention here is to focus merely on one aspect of current changes in space-time-- the notion and actuality of "cyberspace", the most obvious manifestation of the emergence of space and itself an emerging space--an important source of the spatial metaphors currently prevalent. He begins with a consideration of space, of reconfigurations of space and new spatial metaphors, in relation to issues of identity and the debates surrounding space, place, identity and biography. He uses the term "auto/biography" to more readily indicate the lived and textualised practices through which sense is made of individual and collective identity. The reconfigurations of space and the use of spatial metaphors in relation to issues of auto/biography have been central to a range of feminist, post-colonial and cultural studies. It is here that one most readily sees the influence of globalisation in terms of the intersection of the global and the local--the meeting point of globalised space and places of identity--their (en)counters and their (en)foldings--that is such a significant characteristic of the contemporary moment. (Contains 1 note.)