Rewiring the Subject through Spatial Apparatus

This study investigates space as an operative system of subject formation in the works of Harold Pinter and Park Chan-wook. Rather than functioning as narrative backdrop, space is theorized here as a generative apparatus that codes perception, reorganizes cognition, and recalibrates subjectivity. Drawing on Foucault’s disciplinary power, Deleuze and Guattari’s deterritorialization, and Silverman’s theory of the gaze, the study demonstrates that both artists construct spatial regimes that script subjects through modulation rather than representation. Pinter mobilizes silence, informational absence, and indeterminacy to interiorize surveillance, whereas Park deploys visual surplus, technological mediation, and semiotic saturation to externalize it. Despite these contrasting strategies, both spatial systems operate as disciplinary algorithms that precede and restructure the subject. Ultimately, the paper argues that subjects do not inhabit space; they are produced by spatial rupture, sensory reprogramming, and systemic recoding.