Architecture transforms inhabitants into docile, knowable subjects.

Evidence

A whole problematic then develops: that of an architecture that is no longer built simply to be seen (as with the ostentation of palaces), or to observe the external space (cf. the geometry of fortresses), but to permit an internal, articulated and detailed control – to render visible those who are inside it; in more general terms, an architecture that would operate to transform individuals: to act on those it shelters, to provide a hold on their conduct, to carry the effects of power right to them, to make it possible to know them, to alter them. Stones can make people docile and knowable. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 267

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines disciplinary architecture in contrast to palace-ostentation and fortress-observation; precisely the shift the reader’s thesis hinges on.
• XREF: This internalized, transform-the-individual architecture is the direct ancestor of the telescreen’s reach into private homes. — connects to: Modern power gained force by moving from brute architecture to the subject’s own perception — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 315; The prison was conceived as an apparatus for transforming human beings — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 506; Disciplinary space achieves obedience by merging physical layout with value hierarchies — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 228 (+3 more)

Related

• Modern power gained force by moving from brute architecture to the subject’s own perception (similarity 0.81)
• Docility unites the analyzable body with the manipulable body. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Docility unites the analyzable body with the manipulable body. #expands (0.92) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 213
• The prison was conceived as an apparatus for transforming human beings #exemplifies (0.90) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 506
• Disciplinary space achieves obedience by merging physical layout with value hierarchies #expands (0.88) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 228
• Modern power gained force by moving from brute architecture to the subject’s own perception #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 315
• Circular architecture embodied a political utopia of total visibility. #exemplifies (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 269