Chinese Surplus : Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body

Name: Chinese Surplus
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 9780822370536
Price: 4850 KES
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ISBN: 9780822370536

by Ari Larissa Heinrich

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe

ISBN-10 0822370530

ISBN-13 9780822370536

Publisher Duke University Press

Imprint Duke University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 5th, 2018

Print length 277 Pages

Weight 394 grams

Dimensions 15.30 x 23.00 x 2.10 cms

Product Classification: Art & design styles: Conceptual art Asian history Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600 Philosophy of science Impact of science & technology on society

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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.

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