Can a Building Be an Apparatus?

When Michel Foucault introduces the term, dispositif, commonly translated as ‘apparatus’, he uses the architectural example of the Panopticon to illustrate how power is exercised. A building, according to this line of thinking, seemingly has the capacity to exercise control on its occupants. But is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Neil Leach
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Stichting OpenAccess 2019-07-01
Series:Spool
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Online Access:https://www.spool.ac/index.php/spool/article/view/120