Foucault, Michel and Miskowiec, Jay :: Of Other Spaces

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Foucault, Michel and Miskowiec, Jay

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http://www.jstor.org/stable/464648

Foucault's Types of Heterotopias

1. crisis heterotopias, or acute situational

2. heterotopias of deviation, where social anomalies are walled off

3. real space that juxtaposes several spaces

4. heterotopias of time, that juxtapose objects of various times and styles and attempt to abstract away from being temporal

5. heterotopias of ritual or purification, which are isolated, penetrable, but not freely accessible without acquiring permission or performing gestures

6. heterotopias as functions of other spaces: illusion, which exposes real spaces, and compensation, which creates a real space defined by its relationship to other spaces.

Heterotopia

Why heterotopia?

Because heterotopia is the study of models that interact with what they model.

An unreal space that represents (operates upon? resolves?) the real space and causes things to happen in the real space. How and why? Because it is perceived by what it represents or resolves. Like a mirror, like a honeymoon suite, like a prison.

I'm looking for ways that participants perceive and change the mechanisms to which they are subject.

Can a highest-bidder auction change to a Vickrey auction by the actions of the bidders? How does one model the act of changing a mechanism one is participating in? What are the incentives involved?

The decision to change a mechanism that you're participating in needs to operate by its own mechanism - a vote to change, for example, like is formally done in legislative councils.

It needs to take into account the expected behaviours of co-players.