Architectural Deleuzism: Neoliberal space, control and the ‘univer-city’

Douglas Spencer ~ RP 168 (Jul/Aug 2011), pp. 9–21 ~ Article

For many thinkers of the spatiality of contemporary capitalism, the production of all social space tends now to converge upon a single organizational paradigm designed to generate and service mobility, connectivity and flexibility. Networked, landscaped, borderless and reprogrammable, this is a space that functions, within the built environments of business, shopping, education or the ‘creative […]

Birth of the Subject

Colin Gordon ~ RP 017 (Summer 1977) ~ Article

Birth of the Subject Colin Gordon Since 1970 Michel Foucault has published three books, L ‘Ordre du Discours (The Order of Discourse), Surveiller et Punir (Surveillance and Punishment) and La volonte de savoir (The Will to Knowledge), none of which has yet appeared in English in this country. 1 This body of untranslated work, which […]

Playing the code: Allegories of control in Civilization

Alexander R. Galloway ~ RP 128 (Nov/Dec 2004) ~ Article

Playing the code Allegories of control in Civilization Alexander R. Galloway With the progressive arrival of new media over the last century or so there appears a sort of lag time, call it the ʻthirty-year ruleʼ, starting from the invention of a medium and ending at its ascent to proper and widespread functioning in culture […]