TOPOS

"Topos" means place. Everyone of us live in a "place", which exist by relationships of space. A place in this case is not locational, but a set of relations. Like Galileo has said 'everything is relational'.
Topos has many variations to it, the utopias, dystopias and heterotopias. These topos or places are not physical but can be viewed as more of an ideology. Utopia meaning 'no-place' says for itself that it does not exist physically, it is a reflection of a place, often interpreted as a 'good-no-place'. But as Michel Foucoult has mentioned in his text that in fact 'our lives are still ruled by a certain number of unrelenting opposites', meaning we don't just live in a type of topos but a mixture. Not only are there utopias but there are dystopias, the opposite of utopia, translating to a 'bad-no-place'. Moreover there is also a heterotopia, a different place, is utopia is the reflection of the mirror heterotopia can be seen as the mirror itself.

The movie Hunger Games is an exploration of topos and its variations. In the movie there are two different ranks of people, the rich which lives in the Capitol, and the poor who lives in the twelve districts, a heterotopic existence. Though as an overview Panem might seem like a dystopia, but if you put yourselves in the characters shoes, the Capitol of the rich to the rich it's a utopia because they are of the highest rank in their world, even though they are torturing the people of the poor districts.