ABSTRACT
Architecture and its related disciplines have happily incorporated or internalized the "postmodern" through the writings of Michel Foucault, and his analysis of the investments and implications of architectural design and the layout of space in the functioning of a disciplinary and observational power. To "introduce" Gilles Deleuze to architecture is, in any case, a strange proposition, given the peculiarities of a Deleuzian enterprise so resistant to the notion of "application", and which, in being transported to other areas so readily spawns jargon-filled replications of the terminology, without the disordering effects of his analysis. Jacques Derrida work has had a surprisingly powerful effect on the discourses of architecture and urban planning—surprising because his interests seem so philosophical, so textually based and hermetically self-contained. The notion of the outside may prove to be of some relevance to the architectural context. Indeed, it is doubly relevant, for it signals both the notion of an outside as the edifice or exterior of a building.
