Herpetology...is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of reptiles and amphibians.
We might imagine a sort of systematic description -- I do not say a science because the term is too galvanized now -- that would, in a given society, take as its object the study, analysis, description, and 'reading' (as some like to say nowadays) of these different spaces, of these other places. As a sort of simultaneously mythic and real contestation of the space in which we live, this description could be called heterotopology.
Say what you will about Foucault's "systematic description" of "different spaces," but at least it's not pointless:
In mathematics, pointless topology (also called point-free or pointfree topology) is an approach to topology which avoids the mentioning of points.
Cf. the tetragrammaton and the via negativa. Who knew math was so religious?
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