ABSTRACT
Gilles Deleuze was a French philosopher whose early writing ([1969] 1990a) engages significantly with that of Bergson, Prigogine, Leibniz and of Freud and his disciple Jacques Lacan. Deleuze’s close friendship with Michel Foucault fostered his development of Foucault’s notions of:
heterotopia – ‘heterotopia has the power of juxtaposing in a single real place different spaces and locations that are incompatible with each other’ (Foucault, 1986: 14); ‘a space of illusion that reveals how all of real space is more illusory, all the locations within which life is fragmented … [and] another real space, as perfect, meticulous and well-arranged as ours is disordered’ (Foucault, 1986: 17); agonism and a lack of commensurability between actors (Foucault, 1984b); non-representation (Foucault, 1989: 260): ‘the very being of that which is represented is now going to fall outside representation itself’, in geography (see, for instance, Thrift, 1996) and in planning (Hillier, 2006a); chance and unpredictability (Foucault, 2004: 31): ‘l’art de gouverner et le traitement de l’aléatoire’.2
