Spaces of Crisis and Critique

Heterotopias Beyond Foucault

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

AvAnthony Faramelli,David Hancock,Robert G. White

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In Of Other Spaces Foucault coined the term “heterotopias” to signify “all the other real sites that can be found within the culture" which "are simultaneously represented, contested, and inverted.” For Foucault, heterotopic spaces were first of all spaces of crisis, or transformative spaces, however these have given way to heterotopias of deviation and spaces of discipline, such as psychiatric hospitals or prisons.Foucault's essay provokes us to think through how spaces of crisis and critique function to open up disruptive, subversive or minoritarian fields within philosophical, political, cultural or aesthetic discourses. This book takes this interdisciplinary and international approach to the spatial, challenging existing borders, boundaries, and horizons; from Claire Colebrook's chapter unpacking the heterotopic spaces of America and Mexico that lie beyond reductive ideological spaces of light and darkness, to a Foucauldian reading of the Zapatista resistance.With essays on politics, philosophy, literature, post-colonial studies, and aesthetics from established and emerging academics, this book answers Foucault's call to give us a better understanding of our present cultural epoch.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-03-19
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt263 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor176
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350155299

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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.