The mirror functions as a heterotopia in this respect: it makes this place that I occupy at the moment when I look at myself in the glass at once absolutely real, connected with all the space that surrounds it, and absolutely unreal, since in order to be perceived it has to pass through this virtual point which is over there.
* The impossibility of passing through to the other side acknowledged here and yet the singularity between the real and the unreal is interesting to ponder upon. This delicate balance of being-within-unbeing-within-being and the echoing representations are also quite reminiscent of waves to me because a wave ends when it crashes and yet you can’t identify a wave until it’s about to crash. The perishability of the wave (and the utopia) depends on the realization and the consequent definition of its being. Since heterotopias are essentially countering utopias, their functionality only comes into play when we are tearing the utopias down. So a heterotopia is a crashing wave. Defined and real and yet dispersing and unreal .
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