Round 2: 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 in step is used as an example of “docile bodies.” A meticulous timetable created by Léon Faucher (“fo-SHAY”) is contrasted with violence as public spectacle in this book’s first chapter, “The body of the condemned.” The “carceral” system extends (10[1])across all of society according to this book, which asks “Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, (10[1])schools… (10[1])which all resemble prisons?” For 10 points, name this book by Michel Foucault that compares the observation of modern society to Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison [or Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison]
<Queens A, Philosophy> | Packet B - Queens A, UCLA B, Edinburgh B, St. Georges A
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Neg %Avg. Buzz
California (North)Main Site3100%0%92.67
CanadaMain Site1090%50%122.11
FloridaMain Site30%67%
Great LakesMain Site5100%60%102.80
Lower Mid-AtlanticMain Site967%22%91.67
MidwestMain Site863%38%96.00
NortheastMain Site580%20%123.75
OverflowMain Site475%50%93.67
South CentralMain Site250%50%105.00
SoutheastMain Site771%29%114.80
UKMain Site667%17%101.50
Upper Mid-AtlanticMain Site875%50%109.50
Upstate NYMain Site4100%0%106.50