Re: [Foucault-L] Aesthetics and Power

Thank you!

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Douglas Olena <doug@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Try the arts of self construction found in "The Politics of Truth",
> especially in 'What is Enlightenment?' The concept of transgression is
> important and writing as self construction. Try the end of the
> Rousseau article. Look at self construction as an aesthetic project.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 16, 2010, at 2:52 PM, Teresa Mayne <teresa.mayne@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello again. It's been a while, but I was wondering if anyone knows
> > if
> > Foucault wrote anything on the relation between aesthics and power?
> > I am
> > writing a review on 'The Political Life of Sensation' by Panagia and
> > it
> > would be a great help if I could add some more depth to my theory with
> > 'sweet pea's' help. I understand aesthetics to be a broader
> > conceptual
> > apparatus, that depending on the relation to which, we construct our
> > relationship towards the world through consciousness's
> > interpretation of
> > it (i.e. representation). So, the work doesn't have to necessarily
> > revolve
> > around the traditional conception of art, but if we could find
> > something
> > that plays with it a bit would be absolutely brilliant.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Teresa
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