RHETOR R1A Chapter Notes - Chapter Entire book: Socalled, Heterochrony, Vishvarupa
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Michel foucault, of other spaces: utopias and heterotopias: Utopias and heterotopias- same thought and idea vs. cultural mixes. The nineteenth century found its essential mythological resources in the second principle of thermodynamics. The present epoch will perhaps be above all the epoch of space. Actually, structuralism does not entail denial of time. One could say, by way of retracing this history of space very roughly, that in the middle. Ages there was a hierarchic ensemble of places: sacred places and profane places: protected places and open, exposed places: urban places and rural places. This space of emplacement was opened up by galileo. For the real scandal of galileo"s work lay not so much in his discovery, or rediscovery, that the earth revolved around the sun, but in his constitution of an infinite, and infinitely open space. In a still more concrete manner, the problem of siting or placement arises for mankind in terms of demography.
