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Title: The Tutelary architecture of immigration detention prisons and the spectacle of 'Necessary Suffering'
Related: Architectural theory review, Vol. 13, No. 2, p.206-221
DOI: 10.1080/13264820802216841
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2008
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 120100 Architecture
Author/Creator: Pugliese, Joseph
Description: In this essay, I address Debord's concept of the spectalist society in the context of the transmutation of the trauma of the refugees incarcerated in Australia's immigration prisons into telegenic spectacle. I argue that the razor wire fences of these prisons generate a double movement of both enclosure and exposure. The potential for exposure is what enables refugee trauma to be telegenically transmitted as spectacle. The architecture of Australia's immigration prisons, I conclude, functions as a type of tutelary architecture that dispenses object lessons on deterrence whilst simultaneously generating the production of refugee trauma-as-spectacle.
Description: 16 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 120100 Architecture
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Media

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