Cultural Heterotopias and the Making of the Political

In recent decades, ample literature has been produced on the transformation of public space with divergent debates on its contemporary definition, new forms, and the contention between public and private (Sorkin 1992). A startling transformation of twenty-first-century society appears to undermine the classical assumptions on which democratic politics and the welfare state are based. Across every nation, there is an accelerating proliferation of poverty, environmental disasters, ruthless state security, societal conservatism, mass immigration, and displacement (Davis 2006). One of the key traits of this era is the intensification of capitalism and its influence and dominance into a new form known