Spaces of Crisis and Critique

Anthony Faramelli is a Research Fellow at Kingston University, UK.David Hancock is Senior Research Assistant at Buckinghamshire New University, UK.Robert G. White is a PhD student at the London Graduate School, Kingston University, UK.

• Introduction Chapter 1: ‘Literature-Outside-Space: Foucault, Sade and Tales of Terror’ Fred Botting, Kingston University London, UKChapter 2: ‘The Living Space of the Image’Julien Reid, University of Lapland, FinlandChapter 3: ‘Inside Comfort: The Interior and the Immune System’ Dr Sheena Culley, Independent ScholarChapter 4: ‘Spacing the interior: The Carceral body as heterotopia in contemporary Palestinian Cinema’Robert G. White, Kingston University London, UK Chapter 5: ‘The Politics of the Hidden Space: Georges Bataille and non-knowledge in the era of transparency’David Hancock, Buckinghamshire New University, UKChapter 6: ‘Mirrors and Masks: The Political Space of Zapatismo’Anthony Faramelli, Kingston University London, UKChapter 7: ‘In the Beginning All the World Was America’ Claire Colebrook, Pennsylvania State University, USAIndex

A fascinating compilation of provocative essays. Foucault's concept of 'heterotopia' is the departure point for many of the authors in this collection - allowing them to 'think differently' about a diverse range of issues. They are to be complimented on a sophisticated reading of heterotopia which avoids the all-too-frequent interpretation of this in terms of absolute, physical space. This allows the authors to develop and extend Foucault's thinking and that of a range of other 'post-conventional thinkers', to develop novel critiques of the present and of contemporary politics. Readers interested in resistance politics, in theorising vulnerability and in the development of a minoritarian-ethics will find this book thought-provoking.