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THE NOTION OF HETEROTOPIA 1
Michel Foucault is his manuscript called ‘Of Other Spaces (1967), Heterotopias’, reflected on the notion of the ‘space of emplacement’ where the modern living do not dwell in a homogeneous and empty space any longer, but on the contrary in a space thoroughly impregnated with illusory and phantasmatic quantities as well.
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We do not inhabit an abstract void but ‘a set of relations that delineates sites which are irreducible to one another and absolutely not superimposable on one another’.
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Foucault affirms that ‘loci’ or ‘localization has been substituted for extension which itself had replaced emplacement’. He adds that ‘our epoch is one in which space takes for us the form of relations among sites’, relations of proximity between points or elements. (Michel Foucault, ‘Des Espace Autres’, 1967)