Generative heterotopies: the representation of the Arctic in modern Russian cinema
Abstract The article analyzes the main ideas about the nature and methods of forming heterotopies. Michel Foucault has proposed to call “heterotopias” places in which are formed alternate versions of the relations of Power, social relations and culture. Today, the prevailing view in the Humanities i...
| Published in: | IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science |
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IOP Publishing
2020
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/539/1/012089 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/539/1/012089/pdf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/539/1/012089 |
| Summary: | Abstract The article analyzes the main ideas about the nature and methods of forming heterotopies. Michel Foucault has proposed to call “heterotopias” places in which are formed alternate versions of the relations of Power, social relations and culture. Today, the prevailing view in the Humanities is that heterotopia is a byproduct of socio-discursive practices of Power (political and social relations). We know that the natural and climatic conditions in the Arctic are very different from those that most people of planet Earth. The geography of this region influences the formation of special labor, socio-economic and cultural processes. These processes are an alternative to the processes that were typical for the “basic culture”. Studying and understanding the uniqueness of the Arctic region forces us to introduce another concept -“generative heterotopies”. With this concept, we propose to denote heterotopies that not only transform the systems of signs and systems of relations of Power (“heterotopies-as-given”), but also generate fundamentally new configurations of culture. In Russian popular culture (primarily in Russian movies), there is an unconscious sense of the Arctic as a special “other place”. In contrast to the usual types of heterotopias, the formation of a special “Arctic culture” is inevitable in the Arctic. |
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