Spaces of Crisis and Critique: Heterotopias Beyond Foucault (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350155299)

In Of Other SpacesFoucault 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 beyondreductive 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.

Author: Anthony Faramelli
ISBN-10: 1350155292
ISBN-13: 9781350155299
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 03/19/2020
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.38d