Foucault Truth and Power Student Edition Edited by: Dr. Kay Picart Created by: Brett Ader Based on a Presentation by: Anne Stevens & Amber Cochrane
Discourse A new way of looking at discourse Discontinuity Old: _________________________ New: _________________________ Discontinuity __________________
Power Definition:_________ __________________
Discipline Panopticism Panoptic means ________________________________ _________’s Model of the Panopticon Surveillance induces _________ ________________
Based on the Panopticon prison model, can the United States governmental system be seen as an example of Panopticism?
What similarities exist between Nietzsche and Foucault?
Problems with Ideology and Repression ______________________________ _____________________________________________ Repression ____________________________________ ______________________________________________________
The Universal Intellectual vs. The Specific Intellectual
Do you agree with Foucault’s theory that bodies of knowledge create truth and power?
Works Cited (MLA) Foucault, Michel. “Truth and Power.” Critical Theory Since Plato. Ed. Hazard Adams. Ft. Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1992. 1135-1145. Foucault, Info. 25 March 2003 <www.foucault.info> Gauntlett, David. Theory.Org.UK. 1999. University of Bournemouth. 25 March 2003 www.theory.org.uk McHoul, Alec, and Wendy Grace. A Foucault Primer. Washington Square: New York University Press, 1993.