#Heterotopia

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By zmicierkavabata

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You know what charons crossing just in its functionality is definitely a liminal space right? But the whole place is designed with so much love and dedication that it's actually the exact opposite! How brilliant is that? The entire book takes this concept of passing on our through somewhere but instead of just passing like on an airport or wherever you stay! Make this liminal space a home and i really like that.

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thermoplastic escape

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Hometown gothic

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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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LINK FEST: 23 APRIL 2024

Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses. images: Thread on the beauty of wildlife (James Lucas/Twitter). Scroll through all 30 photos. short essay: Bus stops: Trying for a different angle (Rosecrans Baldwin/Meditations in an Emergency). “… a change of outlook, even a manufactured one, is a…

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My love language? Talk to me about Foucault

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Montaje Heterotopias “De otros Espacios!!

Espacio Areatec

Patricia Minardi Otero - Mirta Benavente

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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

[house-in-the-cerulean-sea]

Okey so i study literature and there's the guy dude called Michel Foucault who is in fact a pain in the ass to read and understand But he talked a lot about spaces and in that he formed the term heterotopia™ which is like space within space, room that is part of the rest but at the same time not at all. Maybe because it has different rules or a different timeorder or because it houses parts of society that just don't fit in.

This can for example be a jail or a museum or even a hallway. It always depends on the function of the space.

And what i find really interesting about Klune books (namely hitcs and utwd) is how well he incorporates these heterotopias like marsyas Island is such a deviational heterotopia. And Charon's crossing obviously as well, i mean there is a different concept of time and it also has a specific function (crossing) which makes it a liminal space as well. (Tho as far as i can tell every liminal space is also a heterotopia)

And he takes these places that have specific functions and are always apart from society and tunes them into homes and I can't put this into words but this is imo a deepy queer experience or dream (see cottage core, see found family, see queer squattings, see general view of the society on the queer community)

And that is on the one hand so incredible and beautiful but most importantly so funny because if you heared the word "Heterotopia" without context for the first time noone in their right mind would think of queer books first that word sounds like a place where you can buy sport jerseys very cheap or smt

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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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heterotopia

If most of the world we live in is an idealized simulation (someone else’s image of a perfect world) then what is a perfect world to you?

How would things look if it were up to you?

What would stay the same? What would be different?

Is everything calculated,

Or are we all just making it up as we go?

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LINK FEST: 26 DECEMBER 2023

Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses. long essay: Vegetation The valve at the end of the world. (Evan Grillon/Dirt). .” On contracting endocarditis and having open heart surgery. “It’s easy to feel out of time and space in a hospital. There are layers to its purgatory. The waiting room…

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etymology — zoo (n.)

c. 1847, short for Zoological Gardens of the London Zoological Society, established 1828 in Regent's Park to house the society's collection of wild animals. The first three letters taken as one syllable. "From a mere vulgarism, this corruption has passed into wide colloquial use" [Century Dictionary]. Slang meaning "crowded and chaotic place" first recorded 1935.

a facility with usually indoor and outdoor settings where living, typically wild animals are kept especially for public exhibition