Surveillance, Architecture and Control: Discourses on Spatial Culture

Description

This edited collection examines the culture of surveillance as it is expressed in the built environment. Expanding on discussions from previous collections; Spaces of Surveillance: States and Selves (2017) and Surveillance, Race, Culture (2018), this book seeks to explore instances of surveillance within and around specific architectural entities, both historical and fictitious, buildings with specific social purposes and those existing in fiction, film, photography, performance and art. Providing new readings of, and expanding on Foucault’s work on the panopticon, these essays examine the role of surveillance via disparate fields of enquiry, such as the humanities, social sciences, technological studies, design and environmental disciplines. Surveillance, Architecture and Control seeks to engender new debates about the nature of the surveilled environment through detailed analyses of architectural structures and spaces; examining how cultural, geographical and built space buttress and produce power relations. The various essays address the ongoing fascination with contemporary notions of surveillance and control. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction (Susan Flynn, Antonia Mackay)....Pages 1-15 Front Matter ....Pages 17-17 Exercising Control at the Urban Scale: Towards a Theory of Spatial Organisation and Surveillance (Alan Reeve)....Pages 19-56 Staying Awake in the Psychetecture of the City: Surveillance, Architecture, and Control in Miracleman and Mister X (Kwasu D. Tembo)....Pages 57-76 Surveillance and Spatial Performativity in the Scenography of Tower (Lucy Thornett)....Pages 77-98 Front Matter ....Pages 99-99 Houses, Homes, and the Horrors of a Suburban Identity Politic (Jaclyn Meloche)....Pages 101-117 One Grey Wall and One Grey Tower: The Bates World in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (Subarna Mondal)....Pages 119-137 Architecture and American Horror Story: Reading ‘Murder House’ on Murderous Bodies (Antonia Mackay)....Pages 139-154 Surveillance, Sousveillance, and the Uncanny Domestic Architecture of Black Mirror (Luke Reid)....Pages 155-172 Front Matter ....Pages 173-173 The Birds: Public Art and a Narrative of Surveillance (Joel Hawkes)....Pages 175-186 Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries and the Psychological Architecture of Surveillance (Jennifer O’Mahoney, Lorraine Bowman Grieve, Alison Torn)....Pages 187-208 Performing the Repentant Lover in the Courtroom: An Analysis of Oscar Pistorius’ Recreation of Hegemonic Masculinity (Alexandra Macht)....Pages 209-230 Front Matter ....Pages 231-231 In the Drone-Space: Surveillance, Spatial Processing, and the Videogame as Architectural Problem (Nathaniel Zetter)....Pages 233-254 Sensurround: 4D Theatre Space and the Pliable Body (Stacy M. Jameson)....Pages 255-274 Surveillance and Spectacle Inside The Circle (Brian Jarvis)....Pages 275-293 Wayfinding re/dicto (Graydon Wetzler)....Pages 295-324 Epilogue: Control(ling) Space (Susan Flynn, Antonia Mackay)....Pages 325-332 Back Matter ....Pages 333-335