Chinese Surplus

Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body

Ari Larissa Heinrich (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2018
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9780822370536 (ISBN)

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What happens when the body becomes art in the age of biotechnological reproduction? In Chinese Surplus Ari Larissa Heinrich examines transnational Chinese aesthetic production to demonstrate how representations of the medically commodified body can illuminate the effects of biopolitical violence and postcolonialism in contemporary life. From the earliest appearance of Frankenstein in China to the more recent phenomenon of "cadaver art," he shows how vivid images of a blood transfusion as performance art or a plastinated corpse without its skin-however upsetting to witness-constitute the new "realism" of our times. Adapting Foucauldian biopolitics to better account for race, Heinrich provides a means to theorize the relationship between the development of new medical technologies and the representation of the human body as a site of annexation, extraction, art, and meaning-making.

Ari Larissa Heinrich is Professor of Chinese Literature and Media at the Australian National University . He is the author of The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West, also published by Duke University Press, and coeditor of Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese Cultures.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Chinese Body as Surplus 1
1. Chinese Whispers: Frankenstein, the Sleeping Lion, and the Emergence of a Biopolitical Aesthetics 25
2. Souvenirs of the Organ Trade: The Diasporic Body in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Art 49
3. Organ Economics: Transplant, Class, and Witness from Made in Hong Kong to The Eye 83
4. Still Life: Recovering (Chinese) Ethnicity in the Body Worlds and Beyond 115
Epilogue. All Rights Preserved: Intellectual Property and the Plastinated Cadaver Exhibits 139
Notes 159
Bibliography 227
Index 239

Erscheinungsdatum	15.03.2018
Reihe/Serie	Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
Zusatzinfo	26 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-13	9780822370536 / 9780822370536
Zustand	Neuware