The goal of technology - and by extension of architecture - consists in the invention of apparatuses used to regulate and normatize the bodies submitted to them. We are all familiar with the object "panopticon" as such an apparatus. However, architects tends to stubbornly consider it as a literal architecture forgetting that it is before all, a system of power relation providing a scheme for the entire society - and therefore for the city. The panopticon is not just applied to prison. It adapts itself literally (meaning architecturally) or abstractly to other institutions of control such as barracks, schools, factories and hospitals.
además de en su clásico vigilar y castigar, michel foucault trato el tema en dos de sus cursos, publicados en español por el fondo de cultura económica: seguridad, territorio y población y el nacimiento de la biopolítica. sobre el tema está también lo que dice paolo virno en su gramática de la multitud y, en un libro reciente del filósofo sueco sven olov wallenstein, bio-politics and the emergence of modern architecture.
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