... and Heterotopias.” In that essay, Foucault is characteristically less interested in the spaces that cultures designate as real, for, as he says, “we live inside a set of relations that delineates sites which are irreducible to one another and absolutely not superimposable on one another” ( 3 ). He also chooses...

...Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o This essay looks at the novel as a globalectic heterotopia. It draws on a personal history of my writing the novel Devil on the Cross while a political prisoner in a maximum-security prison in Kenya in 1977–78. In explaining why I turned to the novel rather than any other genre...

... in the Speculative Fiction of Octavia Butler and Samuel Delany.” Rethinking History 9 . 2–3 ( 2005 ): 275 – 96 . Cenzatti Marco . “Heterotopias of Difference.” Heterotopia and the City: Public Space in a Postcivil Society . Ed. Dehaene Michael De Cauter Lieven . London : Routledge...

... emplacements, but in such a way that they suspend, neutralize, or reverse the set of relations that are designated, reflected, or represented . . . by them” (178). These spaces tend to come in two types: utopias, which are “emplacements having no real place,” and what he terms “heterotopias,” which are “real...

..., and logical. It is therefore a heterology (a multiplication of subjects who demonstrate their capacity for speech and the democratic logic of equality) and a heterotopia (the power of bodies to construct and occupy multiple spaces against the one assigned to them according to a preconstituted schema...

... of pleasure, supplanting dreams of new heterotopias as yet uncharted and unseen” (67). Most of the chapters evince something of the same almost hectic, wide-ranging approach to their material, moving between photography, advertisements, cinema, literature, theo- retical texts, and material culture...

... in a series of sites, part pedagogy, part narrative, part theater in which multiple actors come together to create the dynamic text. In an obvious debt to Walter Benjamin and with a nod toward Michel Foucault's late work on heterotopia, Alworth devotes chapters to dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums...

... process. Despite its global (though heavily circum-Pacific) traffic, the novel takes a curious interest in hermetically sealed spaces. The episodes are all structured around heterotopias, such as the ship at sea, the recluse’s mansion, the madhouse, and a lone island that has escaped a global...