From Micro-power To Self-technology

The "power / emancipation" analysis paradigm is the main axis of the dispute between modern and postmodern.Since modern society,concepts such as "enlightenment","rational",and "freedom" have become the mainstream of enlightening the modern thinking,building a city of modern civilization.Unknownly,knowledge,truth,and power are intertwined,and the discipline skills have developed to the extreme.It has also created a decentralized city of discipline and a panoramic and open-minded society for modern society,embedding the modern subject in the power cage of reason and truth.On the one hand,the ubiquitous power control has enriched the governance skills of modern nations,cultivating standardized,standardized,and civilized domesticated people,but at the same time,it has also made "people" a part of the power operation mechanism and reduced to colluding subject of "consent to discipline".Following the announcement of the "death of man",Foucault sought to explore a "freedom" and "liberation" path for modern society.Different from the abstract slogan of "where there is power,there is resistance",based on the self-ethics skills of survival aesthetics,Foucault has constructed a path of freedom from the power cage.Foucault’s life purpose is to unveil the mystery of power in order to realize "enlightenment" after Enlightenment and "freedom" after liberalism.while coherent with Foucault’s power theory and self-ethics,the "power / rebellion" analysis paradigm,also has the potential danger of splitting Foucault’s mid-late thinking,which may lead to a "break" of Foucault’s mid-late thinking.So,it is necessary to grasp Foucault’s outlook on power and resistance in a holistic manner in order to re-examine Foucault’s life purpose: self-ethical realization in the state of power cage.The introductory part of the article reveals the dualistic situation of modern society: the era of enlightenment,disenchantment,civilization,and rationalization,and the discipline society of rational "iron cage".Following the modern enlightenment of the feudal era,the disenchantment and reflection on reason(that is,the enlightenment after the enlightenment)became the purpose of the post-enlightenment era.The second chapter of the article,Foucault reviews the disciplinary power in the punishment field,discusses the nature of the "humanized" reform of modern punishment,reveals the concealment,production,and diffusion of micro-power in modern society.A silent power society.The third chapter reveals the game of sex and power in the fringe field of "sex",the diffusion of the sexual experience mechanism,and the conspiracy of sex and power,making the sexual experience islands flow into a sexual society.The fourth chapter explains that from micro power to self-technology,it is not a break,but rather a continuation.The "emancipation" of Chapter Five is the inevitable result of Foucault’s reflection on modern power.The ultimate interpretation of modern micro-power is precisely the background of self-ethics and survival aesthetics.It is Foucault’s lifelong academic thought and physical practice to provide a path of resistance and self-liberation for Nietzsche-style exploration for modern subjects.