Yes. Space is fundamental in any form of communal life; space is fundamental in any exercise of power. To make a parenthetical remark, I recall having been invited, in 1966, by a group of architects to do a study of space, of something that I called at the time “heterotopias”. Those singular spaces to be found in some given social spaces whose functions are different or even the opposite of others. The architects worked on this, and at the end of the study someone spoke up – a Sartrean psychologist – who firebombed me, saying that space is ‘reactionary’ and ‘capitalist’, but ‘history’ and ‘becoming’ are revolutionary. This absurd discourse was not at all unussual at the time. Today everyone would be convulsed with laughter at such a pronouncement, but not then.
M.Foucault. Interview with Paul Rabinow, 1982
 
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