In his essay, "Different Spaces" (reprinted in Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology), Michel Foucault observed that people in advanced technological societies would increasingly move into indeterminate spaces called "heterotopias," which literally means "other spaces." These spaces are both real and imagined, such as the space where a phone call takes place, or within the informational sphere that has also been labeled "cyberspace." Foucault argued that before industrialization society was characterized by time. Other media scholars concur, proposing that inventions like the telegraph separated communication from transportation, thereby making information "timeless." Before the telegraph, mediated communication was based on the time it took to be delivered. Afterward, it became instantaneous, thus changing our "communication bias," as Harold Innis called it, to one of space. ==Examples== Filip De Boeck, one of the organisers of the exhibition ''Kinshasa, tales of the invisible city'' (Venice Biennale, 2004 - Bozar, Brussels, 2005), and co-author of the book with the same name, describes the capital of Congo as a heterotopia. ==See also== *utopia *dystopia ==Notes== # for example in an interview broadcast on 3/5/2005 by Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep. utopias
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In his essay, "Different Spaces" (reprinted in Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology), Michel Foucault observed that people in advanced technological societies would increasingly move into indeterminate spaces called "heterotopias," which literally means "other spaces." These spaces are both real and imagined, such as the space where a phone call takes place, or within the informational sphere that has also been labeled "cyberspace." Foucault argued that before industrialization society was characterized by time. Other media scholars concur, proposing that inventions like the telegraph separated communication from transportation, thereby making information "timeless." Before the telegraph, mediated communication was based on the time it took to be delivered. Afterward, it became instantaneous, thus changing our "communication bias," as Harold Innis called it, to one of space. ==Examples== Filip De Boeck, one of the organisers of the exhibition ''Kinshasa, tales of the invisible city'' (Venice Biennale, 2004 - Bozar, Brussels, 2005), and co-author of the book with the same name, describes the capital of Congo as a heterotopia. ==See also== *utopia *dystopia ==Notes== # for example in an interview broadcast on 3/5/2005 by Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep. utopias
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