Archinect - Features 2024-11-19T00:32:10-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/136826657/imagine-that-review-of-imaginary-apparatus-new-york-city-and-its-mediated-representation Imagine that: review of “Imaginary Apparatus: New York City and Its Mediated Representation” Julia Ingalls 2015-09-17T14:31:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/s7/s7iwankf5zmgr9fs.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Like an infrastructural Ouija board planchette, the Foucaultian &ldquo;apparatus&rdquo; isn&rsquo;t exactly a device, but rather the effect of a multiplicity of participants. Each of these participants, whether they are the media, philosophical traditions, physical objects or even legal proceedings, exert a complex and nuanced force on the other, helping to control the method by which reality is shaped.&nbsp;</p>