heterotopia
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For me Sir Toby's was a heterotopia that offers "tantalizing possibility" only if it veers into its own fragile realm between serious theology and the play of the imagination.
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- Same as heterotopy.
- In ophthalmol., strabismus or squint. Optical Jour., March, 1904, p. 348.
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For me Sir Toby's was a heterotopia that offers "tantalizing possibility" only if it veers into its own fragile realm between serious theology and the play of the imagination.
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In addition, I argue that the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate violence trades on underlying assumptions about the relationship between culture and nature, technology and bodies, wherein bodies are imagined as natural and outside of the realm of law. anthropology architecture archive archives art communication culturalstudies digital evidence fashion feminism film geography heterotopia history holocaust indexing law literature materialculture media medicine memory museumstudies philosophy photography religion representation silence sociology studies theory tourist unsure-tocheck useful videogames visaul visual war CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments.
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If they get involved by choice there will be financial advantages but, as in all things, there will also be responsibilities and obligations. anthropology architecture archive archives art communication culturalstudies digital evidence fashion feminism film geography heterotopia history holocaust indexing law literature materialculture media medicine memory museumstudies philosophy photography religion representation silence sociology studies theory tourist unsure-tocheck useful videogames visaul visual war CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments.
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- New Latin, from Greek
έτερος , other, +τρο\πος , a turning. fromτρέπειν , turn.