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heterotopia

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heterotopia [ˌhɛtərəʊˈtəʊpɪə], heterotopy [ˌhɛtəˈrɒtəpɪ]
n
(Medicine / Pathology) abnormal displacement of a bodily organ or part
[from New Latin, from hetero- + Greek topos place]
heterotopic , heterotopous adj

heterotopy, heterotopia, heterotopism
a condition in which normal tissue is misplaced, especially in the brain, so that masses of gray matter are found in the white matter. See also biology.. — heterotopous, adj.
See also: Brain
deviation from the normal ontogenetic sequence with regard to the placing of organs or other parts. Also heterotopism. See also brain. — heterotopous, adj.
See also: Biology


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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.
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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).
 
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