One Flesh, One End

This shameful gesture likewise speaks a disconcerting truth about power itself. The latter always already operates at a distance. The herniating or radiant horror asserts that the subject does not coincide with his anatomical limits: that humans continue to exert, and remain susceptible to, forms of influence that extend beyond themselves. Indeed, its lesson holds that power resists resolution into bodies, buildings, and other territorial envelopes. The failure of bounded entities- humans, states, institutions - figure centrally in this imaginary

Horror in Architecture - Joshua Comaroff & Ong Ker-Shing