Packet B: Tossup 16

A concept central to this book is described as a “positive economy” that extracts even more “available moments” for even more “useful forces.” This book argues that the organization of “serial space” was a “mutation” that allowed rank to supersede traditional systems. In this book, a description of soldiers marching (-5[1])in step is used as an example of “docile bodies.” (10[1]-5[4])A meticulous (-5[1])timetable (10[2])created by Léon (10[1])Faucher (“fo-SHAY”) is contrasted with violence (-5[1])as (10[1])public spectacle (10[2])in this book’s first (10[1])chapter, (10[1]-5[2])“The body of the condemned.” (10[2]-5[1])The (10[1])“carceral” (10[1]-5[1])system (10[1])extends (10[1])across all (10[1])of society according (-5[1])to this book, (10[2]-5[2])which asks “Is it (-5[1])surprising that (10[1])prisons resemble (10[1])factories, (10[2]-5[1])schools… (10[5]-5[4])which (10[1])all resemble prisons?” (-5[1])For 10 points, (-5[2])name this book (10[1])by Michel (10[2])Foucault (10[3]-5[1])that (-5[1])compares the (10[1])observation of (10[1])modern society to Jeremy Bentham’s (-5[1])Panopticon. (10[2])■END■ (10[17]0[14])

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