The Architecture of Control: A Contribution to the Critique of the Science of Apparatuses
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| Anteprima |
Through
six meditations on the ideology of architecture, Grant Vetter is able
to give us an entirely new set of coordinates for understanding social
control in the twenty-first century. Moving between historical
precedents in the east and the west, Vetter's work reveals a hybrid
order of architectural power that acts on subjectivity from within
rather than without. Whether characterized as a process of
indo-colonization, social ionization or a sub-atomizing social physics,
Vetter's account of architectural subjectivation requires a complete
rethinking of power/knowledge as invested in producing perfected
subjects rather than normative ones. This new paradigm can be described
as a sovereign power in as much as it acts directly on the body through
enterrogatory discipline, inferrogatory infomatics, modulated
(in)dividualism, auto-affective attunement and incentivizing
injunctions. As a critical rejoinder to the discourse of Panopticism,
The Architecture of Control is essential reading for everyone who is
interested in new modes of resistance to the designs of biopower and
imperial democracy.
