The condemned man is the inverted mirror-image of the king

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At the opposite pole one might imagine placing the body of the condemned man; he, too, has his legal status; he gives rise to his own ceremonial and he calls forth a whole theoretical discourse, not in order to ground the ‘surplus power’ possessed by the person of the sovereign, but in order to code the ‘lack of power’ with which those subjected to punishment are marked. In the darkest region of the political field the condemned man represents the symmetrical, inverted figure of the king. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 78

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• XREF: The condemned body, born of surplus power, directly prefigures the prisoner-citizen the telescreen manufactures.