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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis thesis aims to prove that Sibyl System is the Panopticon and to
analyze the causes of dystopia in Gen Urobuchi’s Psycho Pass. In Psycho Pass,
Sibyl System is the governing system which is called the perfect system and it
possesses a resemblance to the Panopticon. Because of this resemblance, Sibyl
System may actually be a Panopticon and the writer wants to prove it using the
theory of the Panopticon by Michel Foucault. Moreover, Sibyl System, as the
governing system, shows signs of being the cause of the dystopian society in
Psycho Pass even though it was designed for the purpose of creating utopia. To
find out more about this, the writer analyzes each characteristic of the dystopian
society and traces their causes to Sibyl System’s aspects. Through the analysis, by
comparing Sibyl System’s aspects to six of the Panopticon’s aspects, it is found
out that Sibyl System is indeed a Panopticon, and these panoptic aspects, like the
royal menagerie function, with its loopholes are the causes of the dystopian
society. In conclusion, a Panopticon such as Sibyl System, though designed with
noble intentions,