BEER Ch. 7, part 2: point of DeepArcher

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

"The last trait of heterotopias is that they have a function in relation 
to all the space that remains. This function unfolds between two extreme 
poles. Either their role is to create a space of illusion that exposes 
every real space, all the sites inside of which human life is 
partitioned, as still more illusory (perhaps that is the role that was 
played by those famous brothels of which we are now deprived). Or else, 
on the contrary, their role is to create a space that is other, another 
real space, as perfect, as meticulous, as well arranged as ours is 
messy, ill constructed, and jumbled. This latter type would be the 
heterotopia, not of illusion, but of compensation, and I wonder if 
certain colonies have not functioned somewhat in this manner. In certain 
cases, they have played, on the level of the general organization of 
terrestrial space, the role of heterotopias. I am thinking, for example, 
of the first wave of colonization in the seventeenth century, of the 
Puritan societies that the English had founded in America and that were 
absolutely perfect other places."

http://foucault.info/documents/heterotopia/foucault.heterotopia.en.html


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