Om drömmar

"A third principle. The heterotopia has the ability to juxtapose in a single real place several emplacements that are incompatible in themselves. The ship is a piece of floating space, a placeless place that lives by its own devices. From the sixteenth century to our time, the ship has been at the same time not only the greatest instrument of economic development, but the greatest reservoir of imagination. In civilizations without ships the dreams dry up, espionage takes the plae of adventure and the police that of the corsairs. "