Expanding the concept of violence to include behavioral manipulation through subconscious cues reveals architecture as inherently violent.
Structures like classrooms, churches, and prisons dictate roles and delineate dissent visibly demanding the subsequent consequences. This perspective transforms static buildings into entities with a form of will, channeling behaviors while punishing deviation.
Such architectural violence, akin to ideological indoctrination, forces conformity for survival, elevating seemingly mundane designs to coercive tools.
This redefinition extends architecture’s banality into the realm of atrocity, from which more grievous metaphors can be argued, such as rape via forced ideological insemination to produce (and replicate) passive and subservient normalization.
Thus, we encounter the violence of redefinition of language: converting the walls into deviant oppressors.
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