I will share reflections on Unica Zürn’s illustrated text The House of Illnesses (1958), in which Zürn conceives of her body and her institutionalisation as one formation, alongside my current research on Stratopeda Gynaikon (Women’s Camps, 1976), a collective account of political imprisonment on the island of Trikeri, secretly written by a group of exiles in the wake of the Greek Civil War. Reading both texts with attention to how resistance to pathologisation and political re-education are figured in relation to architectures and landscape as violent continuations of individual and collective bodies, I speculate on how such figurations can inform a present imaginary and praxis of collective agency in the face of technologically and algorithmically enhanced authoritarianisms.