I think we can relate this to our project. I would say that most of the site still falls into the category 'disciplinary societies', whereas the Bullring is definitely a 'society of control'. As to how we can use this yet, I'm not sure, but we are heading towards a politically driven project so I figured it would be a useful discussion point.
Perhaps we could implement a disciplinary society? Although in the Three Ecologies, Guattari says that we cannot return to past values. More on this later.
Deleuze, G. (1997). Postscript on the Societies of Control. In: Leach, N. Rethinking Architecture. Oxon: Routledge. p309-313.
I agree with what you're saying about not returning to past values. We could perhaps propose that the site would become a laboratory for thought and debate proposing an alternative to to these previous societies.
ReplyDeleteI read the disciplinary society as being the age of Industry where by the working classes were afraid of their employers. They were disciplined by unemployment if they wouldn't not subject to the requirements of their employers.
The society of control then comes as capitalism shifts to avoid its underlying problems. David Harvey often talks about the way in which capitalism has the ability to shift both geographically and economically to deal with its problems ( davidharvey.org ). Under the society of control the illusion of freedom prevails (linking back to my slide about public space towards the bullfight that is in-fact privately owned). It is also interesting to see how the recent riots where controlled not by discipline but control. The CCTV meant that police did not have to enforce the law but simply the justice.