ABSTRACT
The stoic ideal of attaining rational autonomy from the buffetings of fortune and suffering of the world by retreating to an inner realm and retaining control over the representation of the external can be gleaned from this passage from Epictetus: Some things are under our control, while others are not under our control. From Koolhaas’s satire on the inability to see beyond the sticking plaster on the end of our nose and the obsession with build, build, building to keep the outside out, to Preciado’s perception of the inside as having retreated to a position within our very bodies – where the disciplinary mechanisms of Foucault’s biopolitics are no longer understood merely as physical apparatuses inhabited by our bodies like the Panopticon but have been absorbed and ingested so that they themselves inhabit our bodies.
