Para Jumble: Panoptic Mechanism
CAT 2025 Slot 1 · Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension · Hard · VARC
This is a hard Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension question from the CAT 2025 Slot 1 paper. It tests VARC. The full answer key and a step-by-step explanation are below — try it yourself first, then reveal the solution.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.
- It can in fact be integrated into any function (education, medical treatment, production, punishment); it can increase the effect of this function, by being linked closely with it; it can constitute a mixed mechanism in which relations of power (and of knowledge) may be precisely adjusted, in the smallest detail, to the processes that are to be supervised; it can establish a direct proportion between 'surplus power' and 'surplus production'.
- It's a case of 'it's easy once you've thought of it' in the political sphere.
- The panoptic mechanism is not simply a hinge, a point of exchange between a mechanism of power and a function; it is a way of making power relations function in a function, and of making a function function through these power relations.
- In short, it arranges things in such a way that the exercise of power is not added on from the outside, like a rigid, heavy constraint, to the functions it invests, but is so subtly present in them as to increase...
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Explanation
Sentence 3 introduces 'The panoptic mechanism' as the main subject. Sentence 1 elaborates on how it can be integrated into various functions. Sentence 4 provides a summary ('In short...'). Sentence 2 offers a final reflective remark on its political simplicity.
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