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Zusatztext Spaces of Crisis and Critique takes Foucault’s all too brief account of heterotopias as an invitation to investigate the hidden and the overt spaces where a politics of resistance is still possible. In foregrounding the aesthetic, as an opening on to the political and philosophical, the collection poses critical questions to those who think of politics as a science. It puts in to question inert disciplines which act as boundary keepers to critical knowledge, and it foregrounds the centrality and complexity of spatiality to any thinking of the political. From Faramelli’s account of Zapatista resistance to Colebrook’s illuminating account of the spatial metaphors of light and dark in the American political imaginary this superb book reanimates Foucault studies. More importantly it fosters critical thinking in the spaces where neoliberalism has not yet forced things to be held to account. This collection should find its way on to the shelves of those committed to the aesthetic remaking of our political imaginaries. Informationen zum Autor 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 . Vorwort This collection responds to and interrogates Foucault’s philosophical thinking on spaces of crisis and critique. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1: ‘Literature-Outside-Space: Foucault, Sade and Tales of Terror’ Fred Botting, Kingston University London, UK Chapter 2: ‘The Living Space of the Image’ Julien Reid, University of Lapland, Finland Chapter 3: ‘Inside Comfort: The Interior and the Immune System’ Dr Sheena Culley, Independent Scholar Chapter 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, UK Chapter 6: ‘Mirrors and Masks: The Political Space of Zapatismo’ Anthony Faramelli, Kingston University London, UK Chapter 7: ‘In the Beginning All the World Was America’ Claire Colebrook, Pennsylvania State University, USA Index...
