A thinker from this country described the transition from public torture to modern prisons in his work Discipline and Punish.
In one essay, a writer from this country examined Oedipus's words, "I conclude that all is well." Another thinker from this country showed how techniques such as examination subject people to the concept of "power-knowledge," and compared the measures taken by a plague-stricken city to Bentham's Panopticon. A thinker from this country described the transition from public torture to modern prisons in his work Discipline and Punish. Another man from this country discussed the happiness of a character who rolls a boulder up a hill in his existentialist essay The Myth of Sisyphus. For 10 points, name this colonial power, the country of Michel Foucault and Albert Camus.
In one essay, a writer from this country examined Oedipus's words, "I conclude that all is well."
France [or French Republic, or République française, prompt on Algeria until “colonial power” is read]