The essay that defines these “placeless places” distinguishes between “crisis” ones like hotel rooms and boarding schools and “deviant” ones like prisons and rest homes. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these places, which the essay “Of Other Spaces” defines as a “real site” where “all other real sites can be found within the culture” and “are simultaneously represented, contested, and inverted.”
ANSWER: heterotopias [or hétérotopie]
[10e] Michel Foucault states that heterotopias “undermine language” in the preface to this book, which opens with a description of Las Meninas.
ANSWER: The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences [or Les mots et les choses: Une archéologie des sciences humaines]
[10m] Edward Soja’s (“SOH-juh’s”) thirdspace theory integrates Foucault’s theory of heterotopias with this other French thinker’s tripartite theory of space from his book The Social Production of Space.
ANSWER: Henri Lefebvre (“luh-FEV-ruh”)
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