Foucault Truth and Power Student Edition

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FoucaultTruth and PowerStudent Edition

• Edited by Dr. Kay Picart
• Associate Professor of English
• Courtesy Associate Professor of Law
• Created by Brett Ader
• Based on a Presentation by Anne Stevens Amber
  Cochrane

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Discourse

• A new way of looking at discourse
• Old _________________________
• New _________________________
• Discontinuity
• __________________
• __________________

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Power

• Definition_________ __________________

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Discipline

• Panopticism
• Panoptic means ________________________________
• _________s Model of the Panopticon
• Surveillance induces _________ ________________

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• Based on the Panopticon prison model, can the
  United States governmental system be seen as an
  example of Panopticism?

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• What similarities exist between Nietzsche and
  Foucault?

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Problems with Ideology and Repression

• Ideology
• ______________________________
• _____________________________________________

• Repression
• ____________________________________
• __________________________________________________
  ____
• ____________________________________

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The Universal Intellectual vs. The Specific
Intellectual

• Universal Intellectual ______________________
  ________________________________________
• Specific Intellectual _______________________
  __________________________________________________
  ______________________________

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Do you agree with Foucaults theory that bodies
of knowledge create truth and power?
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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 ltwww.foucault.infogt
• 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.