RC 14 SOLUTIONS

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1- A

The crux of Para 1 lies in “understanding how we have

become what we are rather than importing our prejudices on

to the past in the guise of their being eternal truths apprehended

by a supra-historical intellect ”. This means actively probing or

studying the factors which have led to our present state,

rather than seeing the whole thing through our prejudices or

from a third-party stance as one does while narrating history

or studying history. Option (a) hits the crux of the paragraph.

Option (b) is going against what has been said. Foucault does

not want a prejudiced approach. Seeing everything as a

natural oucome is a prejudiced approach. Option (c) is too

specific to encompass what is being implied. Option (d) is

vague and distorted. Foucault has not indicated any such

thing.

2- B

The author is predominantly descriptive in the passage. He

describes what biopower (and also disciplinary technologies)

seeks to achieve. He does not resort to arguments or counterarguments.

Foucault does argue to some extent in the first

paragraph. The author is also not exhorting anyone to do

anything. Foucault has an exhorting tone, but not the author.

The author does not appear to be exposing something or

someone.

3- B

Refer to the line “ Biopower is thus tied to the emergence of

the discipline of statistical demography, and there begins the

quantification of the phenomena of birth-rate, longevity, the

reproductive rates and fertility of a given population, its state

of health, patterns of diet and habitation.”; and “Biopower, on

the other hand, focuses on the body as the vehicle of species

life. Given the nature of the phenomena with which it is

concerned it is regulatory rather than disciplinary.”Options (a)

, (c) and (d) deal with regulatory measures which affect the

population as a whole. The measures are in response to

population statistics. Option (b) is a disciplinary measure which

is not connected to a population statistic like mortality/longevity

etc. Hence only option (b) is not an example of the use/ outcome

of biopower.

4- C

Statement ‘A’ uses the word ‘utilizing’ for biopower which is

not appropriate. The philosophy of biopower is not to utilize

but to regulate to positively affect life as a whole. Also, even

disciplinary technologies can be applied to utilize an entire

population. B and C are correct in the illustration of the

difference between the disciplinary technologies and

biopower.

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