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The badlands of modernity heterotopia and social ordering

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London Routledge 1997Description: x, 164 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415114707
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.2HET
Summary: The Badlands of Modernity offers a wide ranging and original interpretation of modernity as it emerged during the eighteenth century through an analysis of some of the most important social spaces. Drawing on Foucault's analysis of heterotopia, or spaces of alternate ordering, the book argues that modernity originates through an interplay between ideas of utopia and heterotopia and heterotopic spatial practice.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-158) and index.

The Badlands of Modernity offers a wide ranging and original interpretation of modernity as it emerged during the eighteenth century through an analysis of some of the most important social spaces. Drawing on Foucault's analysis of heterotopia, or spaces of alternate ordering, the book argues that modernity originates through an interplay between ideas of utopia and heterotopia and heterotopic spatial practice.

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