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Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias
The heterotopia is capable of juxtaposing in a single real place several spaces, several sites that are in themselves incompatible. Thus it is that the theater brings onto the rectangle of the stage, one after the other, a whole series of places that are foreign to one another; thus it is that the cinema is a very odd rectangular room, at the end of which, on a two-dimensional screen, one sees the projection of a three-dimensional space, but perhaps the oldest example of these heterotopias that take the form of contradictory sites is the garden.
Posted in Anthropology, Language, Philosophy, Politics, Science Also tagged Culture, foucault, heterotopias, Technology, Word 3 Comments
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
So I tell her all this stuff, and I think, “Okay, we’re going to have a conversation about authority or social construction or whatever.” That wasn’t her question. She heard this story and she shook her head and said, “Where do people find the time?” That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. [...]
Posted in Anthropology, Asides, Business, History, Technology Also tagged Business, electronic revolution, industrial revolution, media, Technology, tv, web, web 2.0, work
Hard-wired for the ups and downs
I’m here not to praise elitism but to understand it, not so much through a history of elites but by talking about elites in prehistory. Human beings are naturally hierarchical and they like arranging themselves into hierarchies of skill, age, wealth, competence, experience, whatever. We can deny it if we want, but we all know [...]
Posted in Anthropology, Asides, History, Politics Also tagged Anthropology, Art, hierarchies, poverty, Science, Social Commentary, sociology, wealth
It’s time to embrace American royalty by Glenn Greenwald