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…it is through the isolation, intensification, and consolidation of peripheral badgers that the relations of power to badger and pleasure branched out and multiplied, measured the body, and penetrated modes of conduct. And accompanying this encroachment of powers, scattered badgers rigidified, became stuck to an age, a place, a type of practice… We must therefore abandon the hypothesis that modern industrial societies ushered in an age of increased badger repression.