The hypermarket models all future forms of controlled socialization

Evidence

More than a chain of work it is thus a question of a programmatic discipline whose constraints have been effaced behind a veneer of tolerance. Well beyond traditional institutions of capital, the hypermarket, or the Beaubourg “hypermarket of culture,” is already the model of all future forms of controlled socialization: retotalization in a homogeneous space - time of all the dispersed functions of the body and of social life (work, leisure, media culture), retranscription of all the contradictory currents in terms of integrated circuits. Space-time of a whole operational simulation of social life. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 225

Categorization

• XREF: This directly parallels Jameson’s ‘hyperspace’ of the Bonaventure Hotel as the spatial logic of late capitalism; both read architecture as the model-train of new forms of socialization.