Cruel Designs
<p><em>Volume 07_Cruel Designs</em> includes: Introduction: What Is Cruel Design? — Violence on the Body: A Manual for the French Police Escorting Illegal Immigrants — The Handcuffs of the Future — The Straightjacket & the Guillotine — The Thanatopolitics of Death Penalty — The Precise Design of Torture in Kafka’s Penal Colony — What Constitutes “the Act of Killing” — The Absolute Power of a Body over Another in Sade — The Corset: “A Body Press,” Paradigm of the Violence of Design on the Body — Carceral Treadmill — To Design a Prison, or Not to Design a Prison: What About a Hippocratic Oath for Architects? — From Student Design to Conservative Policies: Dutch Politician Fleur Agema’s Scheme (by Jonas Staal) — The Open Warehouse as the New Carceral Paradigm — The Eastern State Penitentiary Panopticon: The Materialization of the Diagram and Its Fallibility — The Ordinary Violence of the Colonial Apparatuses in the West Bank — Cruel Bench — Innocent Stairs? The Killing Steps of the Mayans — Sadian Architecture / An Architectural Narrative (by Eduardo McIntosh).</p>
Editors: Léopold Lambert
Contributors: Léopold Lambert, Jonas Staal, Eduardo McIntosh
punctum books, The Funambulist
Part of: The Funambulist Pamphlets
ISBN: 9780615942605