Aesthetics View Foucault's Concept Of Power

This paper studies Foucault's concept of power from an aesthetic point.Firstly, Foucault's view of power contains aesthetic significance. On one hand,there is a conformity between power and subject,in this ralationship,humanbody is disciplined, appetite is controlled,thought is imprisoned;on the other hand,subject and power form a rejection,and subject can achieve aesthetic existence and real freedom by the way "Care of the self'.Secondly,the later asthetic thoery integrate with its early thoery coformly, Foucault is looking for "the possibility of resistance to power",thus, Finally, he turns to the survival aesthetics of the ancient Greeks.We put Foucault's concept of power on the Western philosophy background, there is a distinct difference between Foucault's micro-power and power in the traditional mode of operation of the macro, the contribution of Foucault's concept of power analysis. Analysis of power from the political sphere expanded to the whole social network analysis outside the complexity relationships of power with the political discourse, knowledge, body and emotional. This is from an aesthetic possible of view of Foucault's concept of power. Foucault stressed that power is not only a single thing, but a relationship between a variety of complex forces. This power relationship is no center,flow, and can resist the bottom-up operation. Power is everywhere, no one can stay outside power-net. In this power network, on the one hand by the rule of power, the power of people's physical, emotional, behavioral, thought to suppress the other hand, against the powers of birth of the individual through "their technology " to achieve the survival of the aesthetic, to the spirit of pleasure. In this sense, Foucault's concept of power is a kind of aesthetic practice to freedom, but in realistic level,this mode of resistance is difficult to achieve. But just an aesthetic utopia.