Dear Robin,
Thank you for the quote and the definition. I really appreciate them. It's
like you found the source inspiration for this thread (that we seem to like so
much we don't want to let go of it!)
A blue ship is also invisible.
Sincerely,
skawennati
--- Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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