Modern thinking ties institutions to the buildings that represent them

Evidence

Both insist, however, that ideologies are not simply “in the head,” but are material relations—what Lenin called “ideological social relations”—which shape social actions, function through concrete institutions and apparatuses, and are materialized through practices. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The coercive symbols of authority are deliberately preserved even as architecture modernizes. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 855; Modern institutions appear as external structures despite being mere effects of practices — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 28; Belief in institutions now depends on circulating images of them — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 136 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Ideologies are material relations enacted through institutions and practices #complicates (0.73) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628