The perfect disciplinary apparatus...

"Nibby" (nibby68) 11/03/2014 at 19:52 • Filed to: None

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The perfect disciplinary apparatus would make it possible for a single gaze to see everything constantly. A central point would be both the source of light illuminating everything, and a locus of convergence for everything that must be known: a perfect eye that nothing would escape and a centre towards which all gazes would be turned. This is what Ledoux had imagined when he built Arc-et-Senans; all the buildings were to be arranged in a circle, opening on the inside, at the centre of which a high construction was to house the administrative functions of management, the policing functions of surveillance, the economic functions of control and checking, the religious functions of encouraging obedience and work; from here all orders would come, all activities would be recorded, all offences perceived and judged; and this would be done immediately with no other aid than an exact geometry. Among all the reasons for the prestige that was accorded in the second half of the eighteenth century, to circular architecture, one must no doubt include the fact that it expressed a certain political utopia.

My citroen won't start > Nibby 11/03/2014 at 19:54

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Are you reading Foucault again Nibby?

Nibby > My citroen won't start 11/03/2014 at 19:55

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I'm bored in class and this class has nothing to do with Foucault

My citroen won't start > Nibby 11/03/2014 at 19:57

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That sounds a lot like Panopticon.

Nibby > My citroen won't start 11/03/2014 at 20:02

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you know it

My citroen won't start > Nibby 11/03/2014 at 20:04

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I was completely and philosophically wrong, sorry

this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata > Nibby 11/03/2014 at 20:08

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From the first sentence all I could think of was the Total Perspective Vortex from the Hitchhikers Guide. Apparently it's the most terrible torture ever devised.

According to the guide: When you are put into the Vortex you are given just one momentary glimpse of the entire unimaginable infinity of creation (all extrapolated from the analysis of a piece of fairy cake), and somewhere in it there's a tiny little speck, a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot, which says, "You are here."

/nerdmoment