Sunday, June 6, 2010

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Our job was "investigating a heterotopia of the present" - is a condition that is the heterotopia His of public toilets, thus fulfilling as many features. To capture this being, we consider again the six characteristics that Foucault states in his essay "Of other spaces" and apply it where possible, in public toilets.

  1. Foucault sets in his first principle that Hetereotopien are found in all cultures: "It is a constant of all human groups." (S.312) We both agree: In all cultures, there are ways his" escape from pressure "and that too, if you do not in their own "four walls" is staying. Standart and type of institution (if it is for some)
    vary widely. However, he leads his principle further and speaks of deviation or crisis heterotopias. In our view, neither the public toilet a crisis heterotopias, because it is so in this context is not a sacred or forbidden place, nor is it a deviation heterotopias, as it's not a place for people to function, "whose Behavior of average or deviates from the norm "(S.322).


  2. Covers one now with the second principle, appears this realized in public toilets heterotopias, Foucault, are not static but to historical change, that place has become social ideas. This principle can be found here met in full. The public toilets are there in all variations, as can also be found on our blog. In addition, a change to the here and now be seen, as against the issue of the static and thus appeals for the second principle.


  3. Foucault leads the ability to "several real spaces, several places that are not really compatible with one another to provide a single location next to one another "(p. 324). Public toilets partially fulfilling this function, since they are not just there to relieve themselves, but often you meet in this type of toilet in a very unexpected information. The walls are often plastered with flyers to draw attention to upcoming parties and events. In addition, it also gives off and searches for houses or offer tutoring, music lessons, or otherwise. This is where that is in a room together several points. This is of course not apply to any public toilet, which the third principle is only partly fulfilled.

  4. leads Furthermore Foucault in his reflections on the connection with time breaks. Now it is natural that public toilets have to do with time breaks. However, you can see in the citing some examples of his points, which also apply to toilets as it actually in some ways as heterotopias of the time, such as museums or libraries should be considered. Of course non in the same period, but here is the time accumulated in one place. Graffiti, slogans, drawings, even if it's just a simple "I was there!" is that the toilet walls act as a kind of archive. And everyone is basically able to expand this archive.

  5. says Foucault, heterotopias always put a "forward system of opening and closure, which they isolated and at the same time allowing access to them" (p.325). Actually, one must also attend at public toilets entrance rituals. It can happen that you have to stand in line and in most cases is also necessary to allow at least some small change for the cleaning lady. At motorway service stations have to pass even a barrier that can be opened only after throwing in 50 cents. Semi-public toilets usually put forward the member and / or Gastsein (Example Restaurant, Gymnasium).

  6. The last feature which is cited in the text, the heterotopias "an illusionary space, manage the whole of real space and all the real places where human life is included, as yet greater illusion exposed. [...] Or create another space, another real space, which in contrast to the tangled mess of our room a perfect order. " (P. 326) In our opinion, represent today's public toilets has become a material, social ideal, the nature of the outsourcing needs of the people and departed to a Location banished, where one stays for the duration of the call of nature and the one then leaves again. Public toilets need not necessarily have an absolute right, but they lassn in a way, the unnatural way of life and the artificial separation of people recognize the nature, so the first point is to be regarded as fulfilled in our opinion.



The unique assignment is usually very difficult and often not clear. It lies largely in the eye of the beholder, whether the assets are transferred to public toilets as fulfilled or not fulfilled considered. We selected toilets usually meet most of the features and therefore are considered as heterotopias.


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