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Vol. 29 No. 1 (2009)

The stinking city. Neoliberalism and post-panoptic

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-090X2009000100009
Submitted
January 13, 2020
Published
2020-01-13

Abstract

The article studies panopticism as an architectural expression of modern power, from the perspective of its functioning and possible presence in the current logic of globalized capitalism. In this context, it identifies a new technology of post-panoptical power, which is closely linked to the neoliberal-biopolitical rationality of our contemporary societies. This new framework involves an organization of the space which reaches neither the reticulated pattern nor the
normalized vigilance of the panopticum and which could be called “synoptic”. Neoliberal biopolitics thus would endow fluidity to territories; it would even render them into a uniform surface of consumption and would saturate those places where heterogeneity is displayed. This article concludes by establishing the immunitary nature of the production of space and of subjectivity articulated by the technology of neoliberal governamentality and manifested specifically in the segregation of the urban territory.

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