Not only are heterotopias defined as the Other, but they are defined by their Otherness. They are negatives. Negatives of utopias, for not being unreal. Negatives of the real, for being outside all that is in the real space of Society.
Yet so much is possible for the heterotopia. An "effectively enacted" utopia, or at least "kind of," has so many possibilities for the imagination.
Imagine visiting the world in Plato's Republic. Now actually do it. Impossible.
But in a heterotopia...
A real space, outside all other spaces, where society is inverted. A place for reflection, for improvement. The cinema, a ship, a cemetary, a colony, a brothel, a prison, the grave. Heterotopias are where revolutions are planned, where your voice is the only one speaking, where history is made.
Oh, and also where you can see Demi Moore topless.
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