"Vetter's work is a timely inquiry into the dynamics of power associated with techno-Panopticism."
- Mark Poster, author of Marxism and Foucault
"Grant Vetter's book is remarkable not only for its brilliant mapping of neo-panoptic architectures and the evolution of intenisve controls over life and social energies, but for its deep and sustained meditation on the historical relevance and potential of Feng Shui as a creative and practical mode of resistance." - William Bogard, author of The Simulation of Surveillance: Hypercontrol in Telematic Societies.
"Confronting cartographies of subjectivation, Vetter presents an exciting and timely series of meditations on the development and implications of surveillance architectures. Guiding the discussion is a quest for emancipatory potentials in the relationships between people and the architectonic forces shaping contemporary life. In this book one will encounter the obvious figures such as Bentham and Foucault, as well as Batman and Japanese horror films. An important discussion of how subjectivity can be understood and how that can be controlled is opened here." - Paul Boshears, Co-editor of Continent Journal
"...Vetter's Architecture of Control is an ambitious book that uses a number of cultural references (The Dark Knight, and Nightmare on Elm Street among them), to achieve an accessible "architectural drawing" of our contemporary control society. It provides a thought provoking analysis of how neo-panopticism, as the apparatus of hyper-capitalism, has achieved the total colonization and commodification of public and private spaces. As such, it is a compelling read for any Foucaultian, but particularly for academics working in the field of security studies, or on critiques of contemporary control society, outlining a "complete" understanding of this comtemporary phenomenon, its totalizing web, and its material, subjectivizing effects." Josh Bowshers, Interstitial: A Journal of Modern Culture and Events (Review, December, 2013)
