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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.

  1. 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’.
  2. It’s a case of ‘it’s easy once you’ve thought of it’ in the political sphere.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 their efficiency by itself increasing its own points of contact.

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Solution

✅ Correct Answer: 2143

Order is 2-1-4-3. Sentence 2 opens with the general claim (‘easy once thought of’), 1 elaborates the many functions the mechanism integrates into, 4 begins ‘In short’ to summarise that integration, and 3 states the overarching definition of the panoptic mechanism as the closing generalisation.

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