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Fernanda Eberstadt is a journalist and author most recently of Bite Your Friends: Stories of the Body Militant, published by Europa Editions.Ìý

In herÌý, Eberstadt discusses the power of the body as a site of political protest through adressing the lives of a disperate group of protagonists including ancient Greek Cynic philosopher Diogenes, the early Christian martyr Perpetua, and such twentieth-century prophets of bodily freedom as filmmaker-poet Pier Paolo Pasolini and the philosopher Michel Foucault.Ìý

Eberstadt's book explores the no-man’s-land between belonging and isolation, with many of the stories she tells unfolding inÌýspaces that are somehow "other." Foucault himself might have defined them as "heterotopias" – spaces that are "disturbing, intense, incompatible, contradictory or transforming [...] worlds within worlds, mirroring and yet upsetting what is outside" – spaces full of potential that appeal as much to the writer as to the architect.Ìý

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Ìýis a podcast series featuring interviews with architects, artists and designers. Hosted by and produced by the 51ÇàÂ¥ Foundation, it is available onÌý,Ìý, and most major podcast streaming platforms.

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