The Heterotopia of Facebook

[John Bailey]

Foucault is rotating in his grave at the suggestion.

On the BE theme of the corporatisation of Internet space, I came
across an intriguing interactive documentary yesterday called Do Not
Track:
https://donottrack-doc.com/
Within a few minutes it's telling you information about yourself it
has gathered from your online history, and if you provide a little
more info willingly it expands this to tell you more about what
companies (and presumably governments) are gathering on you. It's
coming out weekly in short installments and while I hope it goes
deeper it is quite an enjoyable little bit of pomo paranoia.

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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>> But Facebook? A place of otherness and deviance?!
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> Change that "place" into "space"!
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> On 22.04.2015 11:47, Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:
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> It was Evgeny Morozov who introduced the concept of heterotopia  to the
> debates on 'Bleeding Edge.'
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> http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/themen/evgeny-morozov-reads-pynchon-s-bleeding-edge-the-deepest-of-webs-12572137.html
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>> „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.
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> The almost-forgotten narrative of cyberflanerie
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> „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.“ <
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> But Facebook? A place of otherness and deviance?!
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> On 22.04.2015 10:46, Dave Monroe wrote:
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> https://philosophynow.org/issues/107/The_Heterotopia_of_Facebook
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