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author: Alessandro Zinna (Université de Toulouse 2 – Jean Jaurès / UPR PROJEKT – CAMS/O, FR)

An archaeology of the city. Starting from Michel Foucault's ‘Other Spaces’

language: french

abstract: The conference on heterotopias is an opportunity to propose an urban and social archaeology. The article suggests a genealogy of the city through the ar-rangement of four spaces: topic, heterotopic, utopic and homotopic. Another fragment of this lecture in-troduces the virtual space of the mirror. This rein-terpretation anticipates modernity's own hybridisa-tion between topical and a-topical spaces. It becomes an opportunity to question the access and alternative presence of a situated subject in these Euclidean and non-Euclidean spaces. We conclude with some con-siderations on the organisation of space and sociali-ty a50 years after the reflection initiated by Foucault.

citation information: Alessandro Zinna, Une archéologie de la ville. À partir des « espaces autres » de Michel Foucault, "Ocula", vol.25, n.29, pp.59-88, July 2024. DOI: 10.57576/ocula2024-20

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