Chinese Surplus : Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body
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Format
Paperback / Softback
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
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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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