subversive street signs

on my way home from school. edgemont and monroe streets.

hm.

"Writers who posit spaces (such as prisons, hospitals, workers' housing) as agents of social control often align themselves with Foucault ... Yet in an interview with Paul Rabinow, Foucault explicitly argued against investing space with intentional agency, noting that 'architects ... are not the technicians or engineers of the three great variables -- territory, communication, and speed,' that architects' intentions to control or to liberate are irrelevant to what actually transpires in buildings; and that when buildings are sites of freedom, that freedom derives not from architectural plans but from 'the practice of liberty.'"

--Sharon Marcus