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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.>
List of contents
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
About the author
Dr Anthony Faramelli is Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
A psychosocial researcher and practitioner, his work is grounded in issues of coloniality and the theories and practices of institutional analysis. His current research projects examine digital cultures and the Alt-Right, psychotherapy's aesthetics practices, and the resistant networks formed by Latin American diasporic communities.
Faramelli is the author of Resistance, Revolution and Fascism: Zapatismo and Assemblage Politics (Bloomsbury, 2018) and an editor of Spaces of Crisis and Critique: Heterotopias Beyond Foucault (Bloomsbury, 2018).
Robert G. White is an independent scholar based in the UK. His research explores the intersection of film, critical theory and geopolitics. He is the co-editor of Spaces of Crisis and Critique: Heterotopias Beyond Foucault (Bloomsbury, 2018). His research has also been published in Film Criticism, RCL and the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies.
