The coercive symbols of authority are deliberately preserved even as architecture modernizes.

Evidence

These messages are not accidental. They are fostered by the agencies and generally consented to by the society. It is interesting to observe in modern courthouses the extent to which the traditional courtroom setting—dark, polished wood, the bench, separate entrances, the flags, epigrams celebrating justice-are retained in otherwise nontraditional architecture. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 855

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the reader’s other notes on how symbolic authority is maintained through material staging long after the underlying narrative shifts. — connects to: Modern thinking ties institutions to the buildings that represent them; Architecture transforms inhabitants into docile, knowable subjects. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 267; Modern political authority is both mechanically present and metaphysically apart

Broader Connections

• Modern thinking ties institutions to the buildings that represent them #corroborates (0.85)
• Architecture transforms inhabitants into docile, knowable subjects. #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 267
• Modern political authority is both mechanically present and metaphysically apart #corroborates (0.75)