Michel Foucalt, Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias

"First there are the utopias. Utopias are sites with no real place. They are sites that have a general relation of direct or inverted analogy with the real space of Society. They present society itself in a perfected form, or else society turned upside down, but in any case these utopias are fundamentally unreal spaces."

"There are also, probably in every culture, in every civilization, real places—places that do exist and that are formed in the very founding of society— which are something like counter-sites, a kind of effectively enacted utopia in which the real sites, all the other real sites that can be found within the culture, are simultaneously represented, contested, and inverted. Places of this kind are outside of all places, even though it may be possible to indicate their location in reality. Because these places are absolutely different from all the sites that they reflect and speak about, I shall call them, by way of contrast to utopias, heterotopias. I believe that between utopias and these quite other sites, these heterotopias, there might be a sort of mixed, joint experience, which would be the mirror. The mirror is, after all, a utopia, since it is a placeless place. In the mirror, I see myself there where I am not, in an unreal, virtual space that opens up behind the surface; I am over there, there where I am not, a sort of shadow that gives my own visibility to myself, that enables me to see myself there where I am absent: such is the utopia of the mirror. But it is also a heterotopia in so far as the mirror does exist in reality, where it exerts a sort of counteraction on the position that I occupy. From the standpoint of the mirror I discover my absence from the place where I am since I see myself over there. Starting from this gaze that is, as it were, directed toward me, from the ground of this virtual space that is on the other side of the glass, I come back toward myself; I begin again to direct my eyes toward myself and to reconstitute myself there where I am. The mirror functions as a heterotopia in this respect: it makes this place that I occupy at the moment when I look at myself in the glass at once absolutely real, connected with all the space that surrounds it, and absolutely unreal, since in order to be perceived it has to pass through this virtual point which is over there."
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"The last trait of heterotopias is that they have a function in relation to all the space that remains. This function unfolds between two extreme poles. Either their role is to create a space of illusion that exposes every real space, all the sites inside of which human life is partitioned, as still more illusory (perhaps that is the role that was played by those famous brothels of which we are now deprived). Or else, on the contrary, their role is to create a space that is other, another real space, as perfect, as meticulous, as well arranged as ours is messy, ill constructed, and jumbled. This latter type would be the heterotopia, not of illusion, but of compensation, and I wonder if certain colonies have not functioned somewhat in this manner. In certain cases, they have played, on the level of the general organization of terrestrial space, the role of heterotopias."[source]

There is clearly an image we have about the events happening in Mexico against what people could see abroad. It seems some facts are based upon certain realities and blown out of proportion, inflating the dividends of the promissory but at the same time, it is as if, certain parts of those fictional narratives just seem to break away in chunks by a whirlwind of undeniable rage.

Mexico is not burning, Peña Nieto affirms. That could might as well be, the name of the play in Hollywood. Bright lights, camera, action!

What kind of staged scheme is being prepared for the media now, not for the deceived parents of the missing students but for the media abroad? If in some way the State is able to portrait "the students" as barbaric punks that burn the Palacio's door and then it's OK to use violence toward them, then they may succeed in making the world believe that what he's doing is a correct move from the government that wants to take this retrograde nation of ignorant people to the golden future.

If they also manage to create an alternate reality of events, they might be able to come up not only with an amazing story about the multimillion dollar mansion, but also about the way it rained in all Guerrero but NOT on the exact site, where they claim they burnt the bodies of the 43 disappeared students for 15 hours.

"Mexico still has big challenges. The power of drug lords and the apparent murder of 43 college students remain concerns for foreign investors, tourists and locals.
Mr Peña Nieto says 'we are working hard to upgrade their security conditions'.
Despite his impressive economic reform record, Mr Peña Nieto in the past few days has faced ethical questions.
The scrutiny stems from the purchase of a multimillion dollar mansion by his wife, celebrity actress Angelica Rivera. The property was bought from a company that won a $US3.7 billion high-speed rail government contract. The winning tender was rescinded last week, after criticisms of the selection process surfaced.
The President’s office has denied there were any improprieties to the deal.
The controversy may threaten the very pact the President says is so integral to Mexico’s success". [source]

I have been asking, which place is real? Which image is correct? Why is the power so blind to see the magnitude of the events that have been taking place? Is Peña Nieto looking at the right mirror?

EPN: Mirror Mirror on the Wall, who's the fairest of them all?

Mirror: Not you, my Lord...

EPN: What?!?!? I have traveled near and far!!

Spoken of Reforms in the Kingdom of Fake... If not me, reveal thy name...

Mirror: It's not a name My Lord but 43

 students that ate an apple you gave them:

Abel García Hernández

Abelardo Vázquez Periten

Adán Abrajan de la Cruz

Alexander Mora Venancio

Antonio Santana Maestro

Benjamín Ascencio Bautista

Bernardo Flores Alcaraz

Carlos Iván Ramírez Villarreal

Carlos Lorenzo Hernández Muñoz

César Manuel González Hernández

Christian Alfonso Rodríguez Telumbre

Christian Tomas Colón Garnica

Cutberto Ortíz Ramos

Dorian González Parral

Emiliano Alen Gaspar de la Cruz

Everardo Rodríguez Bello

Felipe Arnulfo Rosas

Giovanni Galindes Guerrero

Israel Caballero Sánchez

Israel Jacinto Lugardo

Jesús Jovany Rodríguez Tlatempa

Jonas Trujillo González

Jorge Álvarez Nava

Jorge Aníbal Cruz Mendoza

Jorge Antonio Tizapa Legideño

Jorge Luis González Parral

José Ángel Campos Cantor

José Ángel Navarrete González

José Eduardo Bartolo Tlatempa

José Luís Luna Torres

Joshvani Guerrero de la Cruz

Julio César López Patolzin

Leonel Castro Abarca

Luis Ángel Abarca Carrillo

Luis Ángel Francisco Arzola

Magdaleno Rubén Lauro Villegas

Marcial Pablo Baranda

Marco Antonio Gómez Molina

Martín Getsemany Sánchez García

Mauricio Ortega Valerio

Miguel Ángel Hernández Martínez

Miguel Ángel Mendoza Zacarías

Saúl Bruno García