Walls: technologies and dispositives of territorial control

Abstract

The recent diffusion of walls as technologies of control and its understanding as seemingly “out of time and space” condition, is discussed throughout this paper. This condition shows both a new interaction and a complex combination among different modes of control, which are traces of territorial containment of biopolitical societies. The “territory-wall”, using Foucaultian concepts, is thought not only as political technology but also as a dispositive of power, of technical domination and symbolic appropriation.