Power & Relationships CAT 2025 Slot 1 ParaJumbles HARD
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.
Answer
Correct Sequence: 2143
Rationale for Sequence: This sequence follows a rhetorical and structural flow common in analytical writing, moving from a general assessment to a formal definition.
Sentence 2 (It’s a case of… easy once you’ve thought of it) serves as a rhetorical opener. It presents an abstract, attention-grabbing commentary on the system’s ingenious simplicity, introducing the overall concept.
Sentence 1 (It can in fact be integrated into any function…) follows by immediately detailing the practical application and functionality of this simple idea. It shows how the mechanism integrates into specific functions like education and punishment, supporting the claim of simplicity made in Sentence 2.
Sentence 4 (In short, it arranges things…) acts as a summary of the mechanism’s operation described in Sentence 1. The phrase In short synthesizes the idea that power is subtle and efficient, not external and heavy.
Sentence 3 (The panoptic mechanism is not simply a hinge…) provides the formal, definitive statement containing the full subject noun. It acts as a powerful conclusion by summarizing the core theoretical claim—that power relations function within the function—after the reader has already understood the mechanism’s operations.
Difficulty: Hard
