Surveillance, Architecture and Control Discourses on Spatial Culture

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

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SUSAN FLYNN AND ANTONIA MACKAY

Surveillance, Architecture and Control DISCOURSES ON SPATIAL CULTURE

Surveillance, Architecture and Control

Susan Flynn  •  Antonia Mackay Editors

Surveillance, Architecture and Control Discourses on Spatial Culture

Editors Susan Flynn School of Media London College of Communication University of the Arts London London, UK

Antonia Mackay Oxford Brookes University Oxford, UK

ISBN 978-3-030-00370-8    ISBN 978-3-030-00371-5 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00371-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018960936 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Brian Jackson / Alamy Stock Photo Cover Design: Akihiro Nakayama This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

Contents

1 Introduction  1 Susan Flynn and Antonia Mackay

Part I Urban Landscapes and Spatial Surveillance  17 2 Exercising Control at the Urban Scale: Towards a Theory of Spatial Organisation and Surveillance 19 Alan Reeve 3 Staying Awake in the Psychetecture of the City: Surveillance, Architecture, and Control in Miracleman and Mister X 57 Kwasu D. Tembo 4 Surveillance and Spatial Performativity in the Scenography of Tower 77 Lucy Thornett

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Part II Domestic Architecture and Houses of Horror  99 5 Houses, Homes, and the Horrors of a Suburban Identity Politic101 Jaclyn Meloche 6 One Grey Wall and One Grey Tower: The Bates World in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho119 Subarna Mondal 7 Architecture and American Horror Story: Reading ‘Murder House’ on Murderous Bodies139 Antonia Mackay 8 Surveillance, Sousveillance, and the Uncanny Domestic Architecture of Black Mirror155 Luke Reid

Part III