Heterotopia

Cinema of the Not-Yet: The Utopian Promise of Film as Heterotopia

by Adrian Ivakhiv

Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture 5.2 (2011)

Drawing on Ernst Bloch’s writings on utopia, Michel Foucault’s notion of heterotopia, and the ‘affective turn’ in... more Drawing on Ernst Bloch’s writings on utopia, Michel Foucault’s notion of heterotopia, and the ‘affective turn’ in social theory, I argue that cinema is by its nature heterotopic: it creates worlds that are other than the ‘real world’ but that relate to that world in multiple and contradictory ways. The landscapes and people portrayed in film are affectively charged in ways that alter viewers’ relationship to the real objects denoted or signified by them. But it is the larger context of social and cultural movements that mobilizes or fails to mobilize this affective charge to draw out its critical utopian potentials. I examine four films from the 1970s—Deliverance, The Wicker Man, Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000, and Stalker—as examples of richly heterotopic films that elicited utopian as well as dystopian affects in their audiences, and I discuss some ways in which American environmentalists, British Pagans, Europe’s ‘generation of ’68’, and Soviet citizens worked with these affects to imagine change in their respective societies.

Foucault, the Museum and the Diagram

by Kevin Hetherington

The Sociological Review, August 2011. Vol 59(3): 457-475

Foucault, poder y acontecimiento

by Gonzalo Montenegro

Antes que por la economía política del marxismo, la crítica propia de Foucault se halla atravesada por los signos de... more Antes que por la economía política del marxismo, la crítica propia de Foucault se halla atravesada por los signos de la genealogía nietzscheana. El ya famoso texto editado por Deleuze en 1967, que dio un fuerte impulso a la investigación de la obra de Nietzsche en Francia, constituye una de las primeras aproximaciones al concepto de genealogía. En dicho estudio, Deleuze establece una serie de rasgos en la obra nietzscheana que permiten realizar una filosofía crítica, enfocada principalmente al problema moral. En ella define la genealogía como la cuestión dedicada a la determinación del nacimiento de los valores por medio del diagnóstico de las valoraciones que les dan origen. Esto es, revelar la medida en que todo valor nace de una valoración que le precede y en que ella, a su vez, se haya atravesada por valores determinados.

Foucault’s left-overs and the urban heterostasis

by André Ourednik

Ficção científica (social) – As ténues fronteiras entre real e ficção

by Daniel Cardoso

Presented at the "Colóquio Cibercultura e Ficção"
1/3/2012

Pensar a ficção científica na sua interacção com o tecido social é, geralmente, pensar nas tecnologias que ajudou a... more Pensar a ficção científica na sua interacção com o tecido social é, geralmente, pensar nas tecnologias que ajudou a inspirar, numa relação quase mítica entre ficção e realidade, procurando as semelhanças e lendo-as como mecanismo profético. A partir de um exemplo apenas, o caso de “Um Estranho Numa Terra Estranha”, coloca-se aqui o desafio de pensar a ficção científica como ficção científica (social). Ou seja, a ficção científica também é (e também inspira) tecnologias sociais, desafiando pressupostos e também gerando linguagem, na construção de heterotopias (ou distopias). Isto sucede, no caso em questão, por um movimento de imitação directa e de memética, cujas marcas ainda se podem sentir, na (ciber-)cultura – que então não existia – em torno do “poliamor”.

Palavras-chave: meme, cibercultura, tecnologias sociais, heterotopia, poliamor

Foucault y Deleuze: pensadores de nuestro tiempo

by Gonzalo Montenegro

Co-authored with Mauricio Salgado, published in 'Revista Persona y Sociedad', Vol. XVIII, No. 1, April, pp. 337-358. 2004

Una potencia de librepensamiento inigualada atraviesa la filosofía del siglo XX. De la mano con las filosofías... more Una potencia de librepensamiento inigualada atraviesa la filosofía del siglo XX. De la mano con las filosofías nietzscheana y heideggeriana que tan profundamente marcan nuestra época, surgen dos filósofos franceses cuya obra llena de pasión incita a la reflexión incesante. Cabe agregar a ello la silenciosa complicidad con que llegan a las intuiciones más profundas de sus respectivos pensamientos. Surge, entonces, un arduo y fructífero camino para la investigación: la dilucidación de las importantes conexiones con que se desenvuelve la creación filosófica de Deleuze y Foucault.

Governance Within Social Media Websites: Ruling New Frontiers

by Renee Marlin-Bennett

co-authored with E. Nicole Thornton, published in Telecommunications Policy

Governance within social media websites can be evaluated in terms of conformity to or transgression of external legal... more Governance within social media websites can be evaluated in terms of conformity to or transgression of external legal requirements, social mores, and economic incentives. By examining social media websites as frontiers and heterotopias in which rule is indeterminate, this paper explores the way rule is established and changed. The authors illustrate this approach using the case of changing governance within Formspring.

State formation and pre-modern identities in the North

by Sverrir Jakobsson

A draft version of an article published in Arkiv för nordisk filologi, 125 (2010), 67-82.

Heaven is a Place on Earth: Church and Sacred Space in 13th century Iceland

by Sverrir Jakobsson

A draft version of an article published in Scandinavian Studies, 82 (2010), 1-20.

Article: “On the Production of Heterotopia, and Other Spaces, in and around Lesbian and Gay Film Festivals,” eJump Cut (forthcoming 2012).

by Ger Zielinski

The bridge as playground: organizing sport in public space

by Jeroen Vermeulen

Clevelândia, Oiapoque: cartografias e heterotopias na década de 1920.

by Carlo Romani

Published in Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi Ciencias Humanas vol. 6 no. 3 (2011)

Apesar da área de fronteira do rio Oiapoque, no Amapá, ter sido integrada à soberania brasileira no ano de 1900, a... more Apesar da área de fronteira do rio Oiapoque, no Amapá, ter sido integrada à soberania brasileira no ano de 1900, a efetiva colonização brasileira daquela área limítrofe somente ocorreu na década de 1920. A estratégia do governo federal foi implantar uma colônia agrícola projetada: Clevelândia. Essa colônia agrícola transformou-se em uma colônia penal entre 1924 e 1927, o que fez com que seu experimento fracassasse. O povoamento dirigiu-se, então, à antiga vila vizinha de Martinica, uma comunidade de negros e ribeirinhos, chamada depois de Oiapoque. Este artigo apresenta as relações humanas e sociais estabelecidas nesses lugares em três tempos distintos: o da colônia agrícola, o da colônia penal e o da nova comunidade. As fontes documentais existentes foram usadas para refazer mapas datados desses lugares. A partir dessa ‘cartografia’, pretende-se compreender como se criaram relações entre os indivíduos que, por razões diversas, transitaram nesse espaço naquele período. Apesar de haver uma hierarquização oficial do espaço, a prática vivida pelos indivíduos o reinventou, criando relações sociais não pensadas pelos modos dominantes do poder, as ‘heterotopias’.

Despite the Oyapock River border had been attached to Brazilian territory in 1900, the official colonization occurred
only in the 1920’s. The Brazilian Federal Government strategy was to build an agro-colony called Clevelândia. Between 1924 and 1927, it was transformed into a penal colony, causing the failure of the agro-colony experience. The populating process moved to nearly Martinique village, an oldest black and riverine community, after renamed to Oyapock. This article presents human and social relations established at those places in three different moments: the agro-colony, the penal-colony and the new Martinique community. The historical sources were used to map these places. The objective is to understand, with the aid of ‘cartography’, which kind of relationship among this diverse population was established and how it was happened. Despite the governmental hierarchizing of space, the individual real life reinvented it creating social relations not planned by the power of State: the ‘heterotopias’.

ALGUMAS GEOGRAFIAS SOBRE A FRONTEIRA FRANCO-BRASILEIRA

by Carlo Romani

Published in Atelie Geografico Goiania, UFG vol 2 no. 1 (maio/2008)

A área de fronteira ao longo do rio Oiapoque, entre o atual estado brasileiro do Amapá e a Guiana Francesa, foi palco... more A área de fronteira ao longo do rio Oiapoque, entre o atual estado brasileiro do Amapá e a Guiana Francesa, foi palco de uma longa disputa litigiosa entre os dois países. Este artigo analisa diferentes olhares sobre essa região que denotam formas de interpretações geográficas apropriadas para cada um dos discursos encontrados.

The boarding area by along Oiapock River, between nowadays Amapá Brazilian State and French Guyana, was the stage of a long content litigious amid both countries. This article analyses some geographical views over the region.

Le long de la rivière Oiapock, entre la region brésilienne appelé Amapá et la Guyane Française, a éte scène d’une longue dispute litigieuse entre les deux pays. Cet article analyse des diferents points de vue sur cette région et les interpretations géografiques correspondantes à chaqu’un de ces discours.

Andriotis, K. (2010). Heterotopic erotic oases: The Public Nude Beach Experience. Annals of Tourism Research, 37(4): 1076-1096.

by Konstantinos Andriotis

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160738310000447

Despite the importance of beaches for a broad spectrum of recreational activities, very little is known about the... more Despite the importance of beaches for a broad spectrum of recreational activities, very little is known about the multitude of beach use in marginalized spaces offering a range of opportunities for transgressive behaviour. To explore the ways that the principles of Foucault’s heterotopia are articulated by users of a gay nude beach, functioning as an erotic oasis, this study adopted a covert ethnographic approach which involved non-participant observation. The results of the study offer a unique glimpse into the role of beach, body and sexuality in the tourism experience and unlock the complexities and entanglements engaged in deviant beach use.

Keywords: heterotopia, erotic oasis, beach experience, nudism, gay space, sexual body.

Other Spaces: The Monstrous Sites of Suddenly Last Summer

by David Calder

from Monstrosity in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy, ed. Gerhard Unterthurner and Erik Vogt (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2012) 51-70.

In this essay I analyze the peculiar spatiality of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer (1958), examining in... more In this essay I analyze the peculiar spatiality of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer (1958), examining in particular how the physically present space of the stage, discursive representations of space, and the spatiality of narrative itself lead to the confluence of sexual, racial, and religious others in a polysemic, slippery, monstrous form.

In the shadow of leaves: comic - the city - heterotopia

by Valerio Bindi

published in CONTROSPAZIO 117/2005

The comic strip system is a topological media. A form of lettering articulated in the signing space of representation,... more The comic strip system is a topological media. A form of lettering articulated in the signing space of representation, a narrative medium of dislocation.  Comic strip figures are written are well as drawn, are arranged in the two-dimensional space of the project and exist in the void of the time frame of the comic, creating a link, a chain: the contour of the story. A strong interface, full of white spaces, hourglasses where time organises its story. Comics belong to the theoretical framework of heterotopia, and this fact is validated by each of the six principles identified by Foucault.
The link between comics and architecture, is in the depth of the system, in the social code and in the space/time design as well as in the changes that capital creates in the fabric. The big urban comic strips arrange loads of structures like juxtaposed panels and use the same topological order.

Studi implementasi konsep ruang heterotopia pada interior Gereja Katolik, dengan studi kasus: Gereja Katolik Tritunggal Mahakudus Tuka-Dalung Bali

by Sherly de Yong

Ronald Hasudungan Irianto Sitinjak
Sherly de Jong

Dosen Jurusan Desain Interior, Fakultas Seni dan Desain
Universitas Kristen Petra - Surabaya
Email: ronald_his@petra.ac.id

Kata kunci: Ruang, Heterotopia, Interior, Gereja Katolik, Tuka Dalung, Bali.

Published in DIMENSI INTERIOR, VOL.5, NO.1, JUNI 2007

Ruang heterotopia menurut Michel Foucault adalah dimensi atau ruang tidak nyata dalam ruang nyata. Dimensi tidakmore Ruang heterotopia menurut Michel Foucault adalah dimensi atau ruang tidak nyata dalam ruang nyata. Dimensi tidak
nyata ini relatif dan bisa bergeser. Pergeseran dimensi yang relatif ini bisa terjadi dari pergeseran karakter-karakter ruang
yang saling bertentangan, misalnya dari ruang yang nyata ke tidak nyata, ruang sakral ke profan. Fenomena ini, secara tak
terduga, juga terjadi di dalam sebuah bangunan gereja Katolik, yang biasanya terkenal dengan kesakralannya yang tinggi.
Fenomena ruang heterotopia pada Gereja Katolik Tritunggal Mahakudus (TMK) Tuka-Dalung Bali ini terjadi oleh
pergeseran dimensi budaya, sebagai salah satu wujud inkulturasi budaya lokal, dan waktu atau aktivitas.
Fenomena ini ditandai dengan terbuka dan tertutupnya pintu gedong, sebuah ruang tradisional Bali yang digunakan
untuk menyimpan benda-benda keagamaan dan suci, pada gereja ini. Gedong yang semula ada sebagai perwujudan adopsi
budaya lokal pada gereja TMK, dalam prakteknya memiliki fungsi yang lebih, yaitu sebagai penghubung dan pemisah
kesakralan sebuah ruangan, sebagai penanda terjadinya perubahan aktivitas (sakral ke profan dan sebaliknya) dan
membentuk ruang heterotopia. Salah satu faktor pendukungnya adalah terjadinya pergeseran dinding pembatas area sakral
dan profan saat terjadinya perubahan aktivitas.

'The Everyday and ‘Other’ Spaces: Low Rise-High Density Housing in Camden'

by Luis Diaz

paper delivered at the EAAE Conference, The Rise of Heterotopia (On Public Space and the Architecture of the Everyday in Post-Civil Society), Leuven, Belgium, 26-28 May 2005

Beyond the Inferno: Literary Representations of New York City Before and After 9/11

by Jared Smith

MA Dissertation published with the University of Cape Town, 2010.

From its founding, New York City has served as the gateway to the New World and has been the impetus behind the... more From its founding, New York City has served as the gateway to the New World and has been the impetus behind the American Dream. As the city grew in size and importance, so the levels of antagonism rose among its inhabitants, for, like any large-scale urban environment, it was filled with what Georg Simmel labels “overwhelming social forces” (1950:410). These forces became even more relevant within the context of what Fredric Jameson calls the “postmodern hyperspace” (1984:83) of urban society which emerged during the latter half of the twentieth century. Thus, by focusing on the real-world example of New York, this dissertation examines how the dialectical negotiation between a postmodern city’s form and its function has a profound impact on the identities of that city’s inhabitants, producing alienating and antagonistic experiences of city life which, in turn, places increasing pressure on both the conception and perception of an individual’s status within the boundaries of that cityscape.

The terrorist attacks that occurred on 11 September 2001 functioned as yet another overwhelming force that greatly affected New York’s inhabitants. The dedicated media coverage of the event effectively burned the image of a ‘wounded’ New York into people minds. This emotional imprinting occurred not only because of the horrifying destruction wrought upon the city, leading to the loss of the spectacle that was the World Trade Centre, but also because of the change that this destruction brought about in the mindset of everyone who watched those buildings fall, leading to the establishment of a ‘before’ and ‘after’ dialectic.

Two literary texts that highlight this dialectic were chosen to provide the basis of this dissertation’s analysis. These are Salman Rushdie’s Fury (2001) and Don DeLillo’s Falling Man (2007). Written and set in 2000, Fury provides an insightful and provocative account of life in New York at the turn of the twenty-first century and, through a retrospective reading of this novel, one can identify its prescience in depicting a New York in which the escalating antagonism, both within and without the city, seems to herald impending disaster. Indeed, that disaster was the 9/11 attacks, which Falling Man takes as its subject, providing individualised, albeit fictional, accounts of the trauma that was experienced by those who were in the towers and their families, as well as those who witnessed it.

By offering an analysis of Rushdie and DeLillo’s narrative strategies in these novels, specifically in light of Michel Foucault’s theory of the heterotopia, Italo Calvino’s conception of the “infernal city” in his Invisible Cities (1974), and the work of key 9/11 theorists, such as Jean Baudrillard, Slajov Žižek and David Simpson, among others, this dissertation will plot the trajectory of the ‘before’ and ‘after’ dialectic in order to ascertain how effectively these novels function as (re)presentations of the real-world city of New York.

Guía del Madrid Científico: ciencia y corte

by Antonio Lafuente