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heterotopia

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heterotopia /het·ero·to·pia/ (-to´pe-ah) displacement or misplacement of parts; the presence of a tissue in an abnormal location.heterotop´ic
het·er·o·to·pi·a (htr--tp-) or het·er·ot·o·py (ht-rt-p)
n.
1. Displacement of an organ or other body part to an abnormal location.
2. Displacement of gray matter, usually into the deep cerebral white matter.
heter·o·topic (-tpk) adj.
heterotopia
displacement or misplacement of parts.


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He returns to Foucault's for this use of the term heterotopia so he can explain how he sees the great metropolises of London, Paris, New York and Tokyo.
The good, the bad and the ugly by Dunster, David / The Architectural Review
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Even non-attachment from views is expressed through Trimbur's mode of direct experimentation, a "rhetoric of dissensus," that, "lead[s] students to demystify the normal workings of discourse communities" and "'turn the conversation in the collaborative classroom into a heterotopia of voices--a heterogeneity without hierarchy" (616).
Writing under the Bodhi tree by Smith, Erec / Academic Exchange Quarterly
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