1. Foucault Truth and Power Student 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

2. Discourse A new way of looking at discourse Discontinuity
Old: _________________________
New: _________________________
Discontinuity
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3. Power
Definition:_________ __________________

4. Discipline Panopticism Panoptic means ________________________________
_________’s Model of the Panopticon
Surveillance induces _________ ________________

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

6. What similarities exist between Nietzsche and Foucault?

7. Problems with Ideology and Repression
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Repression
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8. The Universal Intellectual vs. The Specific Intellectual

9. Do you agree with Foucault’s theory that bodies of knowledge create truth and power?

10. Works Cited (MLA)
Foucault, Michel. “Truth and Power.” Critical Theory Since Plato. Ed. Hazard Adams. Ft. Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.,
Foucault, Info. 25 March 2003 <
Gauntlett, David. Theory.Org.UK University of Bournemouth. 25 March
McHoul, Alec, and Wendy Grace. A Foucault Primer. Washington Square: New York University Press, 1993.