Power & Knowledge
According to Foucault, power and ______ are inseparable and reinforce each other.
What is knowledge?
What year did Foucault give his lecture The Order of Discourse?
What is 1970?
What does the Greek word parrēsia mean?
What is frank or courageous truth-telling?
Social-media censorship is an example of what Foucaultian concept?
What is a procedure of exclusion?
“We do not have the right to say everything.” — What does this mean?
That discourse is limited by social and institutional power.
Instead of seeing power as top-down domination, Foucault viewed it as spread throughout ______.
What is society or social relations?
Foucault says speech is never totally free because it’s controlled by certain ______.
What are procedures or rules of exclusion?
In parrēsia, the speaker risks ______ for the sake of truth.
What is safety, reputation, or even life?
A whistleblower exposing corruption demonstrates what kind of act?
What is parrēsia (truth-telling with risk)?
“Discourse itself is an event; it produces the speaker and the subject.” — What’s the point?
That language shapes identity, not just expression.
Foucault’s studies of prisons, schools, and hospitals explored how power produces ______.
What are disciplined subjects or docile bodies?
Name one of the three “procedures of exclusion.”
What are taboo/prohibition, division of reason and madness, or the will to truth?
Truth-telling for Foucault requires not just facts but ______.
What is moral duty or self-knowledge?
Foucault helps us analyze how “cancel culture” relates to what larger theme?
What is power and discourse?
“Where there is power, there is resistance.” — How does this redefine power?
As relational and productive, not purely oppressive.
Foucault argued that power doesn’t just repress truth — it ______ truth
What is produces or constructs?
The “author function” gives legitimacy to a text by connecting it to what?
What is an author’s name or identity?
Foucault studied parrēsia mainly through which ancient civilization?
What is Greece?
“Algorithmic feeds” deciding what we see online reflect what kind of control?
What is institutional or disciplinary power?
“Knowledge is not for understanding; it is for cutting.” — What does this suggest?
That knowledge divides, defines, and organizes reality.
Name one modern institution Foucault would see as shaping what counts as truth.
What is education / media / science / government (any valid example)?
Disciplines like science or law regulate discourse internally by fixing ______.
What are the limits or boundaries of what can be said?
Why does Foucault value parrēsia more than persuasion?
Because it’s grounded in ethics and risk, not technique or manipulation.
Why does Foucault still matter today?
Because he shows how power shapes truth and who gets to speak.
What does Foucault mean by the “will to truth”?
The societal drive that defines what’s true and excludes what’s false.