A fascinating treatise on the relationship between power and safeguarding. The book "Fortress Power" offers a genealogy of fortification as a material and political technology aimed at obstruction, examining its application in battlefields, borders, and urban environments. Drawing from the influential work of philosophers Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, Derek S. Denman places the fortress alongside the archetypes of the prison and the camp, illustrating how space is transformed into a tool of domination and control. Focusing on the defensive architecture of fortified castles, urban planning, and border landscapes, "Fortress Power" maps the rise of a form of governance rooted in hostility, broadening the scope from military structures to a much wider political concept. It analyzes how power manifests in everything from city centers to international borders, examining the logic of fortification as it shifts through various conditions in the promotion of surveillance, exploitation, war, and political authority. Through a unique combination of architecture and design studies, political theory, international relations, geography, and migration studies, Denman sketches the troubling legacy of the fortress to highlight its role in shaping modern governance and executing violence. In an era characterized by the increasing presence of authoritarian power and conflicting geopolitical borders, it presents a sharp investigation into the weaponization of the built environment. Pages: 232, Dimensions: 14x14cm