This extract, which is taken from chapter eight of George Orwell's Animal Farm, revolves around this issue. ... In this extract, the animal farm seems to turn into a Foucauldian panopticon where the animals display unwavering obedience, so much so that they have developed a sense of self-control for the sake of the oppressive rule of Napoleon. ... Interestingly, this does not reduce the power of his regime; on the contrary, the animals appear to be now submissive and even thankful for his rule over the farm.  ... The inscription of these two texts "on the wall of the big barn" aims at an...

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More specifically, these problems included: monocropping and overspecialization, excessive intensification, dependence on external inputs (fertilizers, pesticides, animal feed concentrates, machinery, irrigation equipment), large scale deforestation, salinization, erosion, compaction, fertility loss of soil, heavy rural-urban migration (56% in 1956, 28% in 1989). ...

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