The quote is from Irit Rogoff : http://kein.org/node/64
The text doesn't include the footnotes for the source:
Michel Foucault famously declared “…the boat is a floating piece of
space, a place without a place, that exists by itself, that is closed
in on itself and at the same time is given over to the infinity of the
sea and that from port to port, from tack to tack, from brothel to
brothel, it goes as far as the colonies in search of the most precious
treasures they conceal in their gardens, you will understand why the
boat has not only been for our civilisation.. the greatest instrument
of economic development…but has been simultaneously the greatest
reserve of the imagination. The ship is the heterotopia par excellence”
Since I didn't know what heterotopia meant I looked it up on wikipedia:
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 places."
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."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterotopia
Robbin Murphy
THE THING, Inc.
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