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Found in the Northern Cape Region, South Africa. "The mirror is the material and symbolic icon of all heterotopias, in so far, as it does not exist separately from the external world that it reflects and inverts. It manifests reality in a tiny synchronic space where the relations with the external world are visible but nevertheless turned upside down, protected and exposed at the same time, in each case non-modifiable. You can observe the codification of reality in a mirror, its appearing and disappearing, but you can not intervene in the process of its reversed functioning." Foucault, M. (1972, 1986): The archeology of knowledge, of other spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias. London. 10.