Anarchist communes, religious-based communities and indigenous social orders constitute heterotopic spaces within the interstices of the capitalist system but outside of the rule of the law of value.

Michel Foucault, for one, identified the ship as the heterotopia par excellence: the space that is both within and outside the social order

Even with clocks, the subway seems to hover outside of time, a "heterotopia," or a space that exists beyond the reach of normal human systems and social mores.