In a post several years ago ( http://www.leithart.com/archives/002185.php ) I summarized Foucault’s thoughts on the “architecture of control.
It didn’t occur to me at the time that there are intriguing similarities between the process that Foucault describes and the organization of sacred space in antique religious. Perhaps it’s no more than a distant analogy, but perhaps it’s further evidence of Hamann’s thesis that modern civilization is “Pharisaical.”
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