The Heterotopia of Facebook

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

It was Evgeny Morozov who introduced the concept of heterotopia  to the 
debates on 'Bleeding Edge.'

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/themen/evgeny-morozov-reads-pynchon-s-bleeding-edge-the-deepest-of-webs-12572137.html 


 > „Bleeding Edge“ also offers us a deeply poetic meditation on the 
digital modernity – an eccentric prolegomenon to a future that never was 
but that could have been. (An alternative title might as well be „A 
Portrait of the Internet as a Young Hipster.“) The Internet that we know 
is here but it plays a marginal role next to the „Deep Web“ – its 
weirder, unrulier, poorly understood sibling.


    The almost-forgotten narrative of cyberflanerie

„The Deep Web“ a technical term in digital circles – the expression 
refers to sites that search engines like Google can’t access but for 
Pynchon it acquires another, figurative meaning. While for most techies, 
the opposite of „the Deep Web“ is „the surface web“ – the stuff that is 
easily accessible for indexing by search engines – for Pynchon, the 
opposite of the „Deep Web“ is „the shallows“ (a term he borrows from 
Nicholas Carr but uses it very differently). Thus, there’s a clear 
aesthetic dimension to his use of the „Deep Web“; it’s no longer just a 
bunch of web pages that have not yet been indexed by a crawler. It’s a 
space of otherness and deviance – it’s what Michel Foucault once 
described as „heteroutopia.“ <

But Facebook? A place of otherness and deviance?!


On 22.04.2015 10:46, Dave Monroe wrote:
> https://philosophynow.org/issues/107/The_Heterotopia_of_Facebook
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