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Article: Disseminating heterotopia.
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 1994
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Utopias afford consolation: although they have no real locality there is nevertheless a fantastic, untroubled region in which they are able to unfold: they open up cities with vast avenues, superbly planted gardens, countries where life is easy, even though the road to them is chimerical. Heterotopias are disturbing, probably because they shatter or tangle common names, because they destroy "syntax" in advance, and not only that less apparent syntax which causes words and things (next to and also opposite one another) to "hold together." This is why utopias permit fables and discourses: they run with the very grain of language and are part of the fundamental fabula: ...
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