Modern power gained force by moving from brute architecture to the subject’s own perception

Evidence

The heaviness of the old ‘houses of security’, with their fortress-like architecture, could be replaced by the simple, economic geometry of a ‘house of certainty’. The efficiency of power, its constraining force have, in a sense, passed over to the other side – to the side of its surface of application. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 315

Categorization

• XREF: ‘House of certainty’ vs. ‘house of security’ is the language shift that mirrors modernity’s substitution of psychic control for physical restraint. — connects to: Architecture transforms inhabitants into docile, knowable subjects. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 267; Circular architecture embodied a political utopia of total visibility. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 269; Disciplinary power stays invisible while making its subjects compulsorily visible — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 288 (+10 more)

Related

• Architecture transforms inhabitants into docile, knowable subjects. (similarity 0.81)
• Panoptic power embeds within daily functions rather than constraining from without (similarity 0.79)
• Power grows stronger the less visible it is (similarity 0.78)
• Contemporary power increasingly operates through permissiveness rather than prohibition. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Power operates partly through perception rather than explicit verbal communication #corroborates (0.90)
• Penal power shifted its target from the body to the mind #corroborates (0.82) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 162
• Ideologies act on people structurally through a process that escapes them #corroborates (0.78)
• Power operates through symbolic influence while coercion abandons symbolic generalization #expands (0.75)