#Heterotopia

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By zmicierkavabata

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My opinion: Yukio Mishima doesn't fit into the "Dai-Nippon Gothic" aesthetic. Mishima's writing is suffused by sunlight and healthy, powerful bodies, symbolic opposites of what "gothic" makes us feel. Mishima's writing is the sea under blue skies and the Ise Grand Shrine. Gothic is disease, frail bodies, lightless spaces.

The difference is that Mishima was actually a fascist and believed it was beautiful, while the Dai-Nippon gothic aesthetic uses imperialist imagery as a form of grotesque violence, mixed up with disease and perversion. Mishima's view on death can shade into this but there's a disconnect because in the gothic aesthetic, it's an outsider's perspective on fascism. Fascism as excessive violence, extravagant criminality, a heterotopia where everyday morality is reversed.

It would be wrong to reduce "Dai-Nippon Gothic" to the restrictive label 'antifascist' but I don't think real fascism can mix coherently with the aesthetic.

Writers who the "Dai-Nippon" aesthetic would do well to appropriate --- Ranpo, Yumeno Kyūsaku, maybe Izumi Kyōka, definitely much of the work of Jun'ichirō Tanizaki.

Of course, recontextualized images of Mishima can be appropriated but it's good to remember they're being twisted away from their original meaning

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Strategies Against Sameness #2 — Landscape Architecture Platform | Landezine

What's a Heterotopia?

"Heterotopias are “counter-spaces” that contrast with everyday spaces like homes, schools, workplaces, and streets. While common spaces conform to established norms, heterotopias disrupt and question these norms, introducing difference and complexity into our spatial experience. Foucault writes about heterotopia as spaces “that have the curious property of being in relation with all the other sites, but in such a way as to suspect, neutralise, or invert the set of relations that they happen to designate, mirror, or reflect.” These spaces take many forms, from cemeteries and museums to gardens, prisons, theatres, and asylums. Their diversity defies easy categorisation, highlighting their dynamic nature."

With relation to gardens they are spaces that are non-usual and cause you too recognise the concept of space. It's the architectural version of breaking the fourth wall

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I'm cross-posting this blogpost from my website here, translated to english, here kind of as an experiment to get an inside into how tumblr works when you actually post and not only read and reblog. It's kind of about a lot: my writing process in coffeeshops, why heterotopias help the creative brain along and it's also a bit about why I think tumblr is still fascinating and still here after everything else somewhat burned down. So here you go:

I'm sitting on the train right now. The last few days I've been in Bratislava, where I've been writing the play for the Phönix. It has continued, hurrah. When I'm writing I often resort to what John Green called the geographical cure in some early vlogbrothers video, but to describe the fact that this cure doesn't work.

I think he meant it then in the sense of a permanent move, a "running away". For me, it works well in the sense of a temporary, short retreat to focus on creative work. However, I have always written more badly than well at home (too many distractions) and perhaps because of my Viennese socialization I prefer writing in public places, especially Cafés. The coffee house in another city, another country, etc., is just another layer of the bubble, so to speak. And to get there, wherever I am, I have to travel by train, where I can also think-write quite well. I am also somewhere just a Foucaultian cliché vis-à-vis heterotopias.

And there's the segue to, you can hardly believe it: tumblr. Since leaving twitter, a while before twitter left itself, I have yet to find an alternative for what twitter used to be in the days of so-called pretty-word twitter. The decentralization that mastodon brings, for example, interests me in principle, but at the moment I can't imagine working in d

While I'm still on instagram, I use it more as an information medium for my extended social bubble. This is what's happening with me right now, these beautiful things I just did. Self-promotion. My comments on YouTube videos can also be counted on one hand, especially on livestreams, which I still find exciting in themselves, but the live chat is too fast-paced for me. What's left is tumblr. Announced dead a thousand times, fragile and more gaffer tape than anything else, I've always come back.

Now, scrolling through my own tumblr over the years, it's mainly a kind of aesthetic and pop-cultural time travel through the development of my personality. Exciting, but not particularly discursive. And anyway, I was never much into commenting and reposting, maybe because tumblr was only the second choice for me after the slow death of soup.io. In recent years, however, I've mainly used it as a reader, solarpunk-, permaculture- or anarchy-tumblr always flushes good short texts and repositories of resources into your feed. I haven't posted anything myself though, the interaction system is still rather unclear to me. In earlier times, social contact seemed to happen via reblogs and private messages, I only know the public page with comments that appear like tags from observation. [Idea: Post this note with an English summary on tumblr and use it as an example]

This one has no real conclusion, except that I find it interesting and funny that tumblr in particular seems to have survived. But then again, there's certainly something heterotopic about tumblr, so maybe it's not that surprising.

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PERSONAL RESEARCH - What is a Heterotopia?

The term heterotopia is derived from the Greek words “heteros,” meaning other, and “topia,” meaning place. Philosopher Michel Foucault first used this term in the preface to his work The Order of Things (1966, [2018]) to describe all spaces which are characteristically “other,” sites which simultaneously mirror and invert the world around them. Put simply, heterotopias are worlds within worlds which somehow disturb or unsettle what lies outside of them.  - Dr. Sophie Raine via Perlego

While a dystopia or a utopia are unachievable ideals, a heterotopia is less idealistic, being something already exists in our reality. A heterotopia is generally a space that exists outside of the individual's day to day routine, and often has its own rules or culture outside of the typical societal norms, for example, a cemetery or a library.

A heterotopia is often "a world within a world", for example a baggage counter at an airport, or a particular classroom in a school, or a screening hall at a cinema.

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My love language? Talk to me about Foucault

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Montaje Heterotopias “De otros Espacios!!

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Psihologia, dualitatea și heterotopia în Aventurile lui Pinocchio

Sfetcu, Nicolae, “Psihologia, dualitatea și heterotopia în Aventurile lui Pinocchio“, în Telework (30 iulie 2023), DOI: ,   Abstract According to Freud’s definition of the human psyche, Pinocchio’s desire for humanity reflects the ego, the id corresponds to the pleasure principle. The Adventures of Pinocchio tries to discover a humanity lost in the vacuum of technology and science, and it can…

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By zmicierkavabata

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Heteros, Topos

Un autre lieu, un lieu autre

Dans lequel bat mon cœur

Je m'évade

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Présence utopique

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DYSTYCHIMANIA

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Ohhh I'm an hour into solaris

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DSC_6746 Odyssey by Russell Moreton Via Flickr: Foucault/Heterotopias (Of Other Spaces, 1967)