by Melissa Perkinson | Jun 20, 2014 | Conditions
“Heterotopias always presuppose a system of opening and closing that both isolates them and makes them penetrable” (Foucault 7). While this is a stretch from Foucault’s definition of a heterotopia, similar principles apply. Here we can see a monolithic public...
by Melissa Perkinson | Jun 20, 2014 | Conditions
The festival is a temporal, fantastical holiday accommodated on a forgotten block or in the outskirts of a city. It allows for opposition between permanence and the mobile, between the everyday and the spectacle, between the reserved and spontaneous self-expresser....
by Melissa Perkinson | Jun 20, 2014 | Conditions
Foucault begins his lecture by describing the loss of the hierarchical assemblage of places seen most prolifically in the Middle Ages. Most specifically referencing the cemetery, encompassed by both a series of hierarchies both within the cemetery and within the...