Disciplinary society and society of control

an analysis based on a redefinition of a Brazilian public library

Abstract

From the 18th century onwards, the imposition of control of the main social and political policies on the population began to occur primarily through urban strategies. Architecture reveals the objective of disciplining bodies in order to prepare them for insertion in the incipient capitalist society, whether in the form of schools, factories or prisons. At first, we aimed to reflect, through the historical and architectural trajectory of the Municipal Public Library of Marília, if the old library has the preponderance of a disciplinary institution; to, in a second moment, present an architecture in the new building, verifying whether the new library model can show a transition from the disciplinary to the control model. Methodologically, this is a qualitative, documentary and bibliographic research, in which we use the Bardin Content Analysis method to analyze interview categories. For that, it uses some of the thought of Foucault and Deleuze about the theme, as well as the history, architecture and a little of the organization of the collections of the library in question in different spaces and times. We conclude that the new library is no better than the old one. It just fits better to the dictates of the new times, with new social and technological possibilities. The ancient library played a very important role in the history of the city and its users. It was just no longer appropriate for the 21st century, needing a new look and feel