Heinrich Ari Larissa Heinrich

Chinese Surplus (eBook, PDF)

Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body

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Produktbeschreibung

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 "e;cadaver art,"e; 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 "e;realism"e; 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822372042
• Artikelnr.: 54672088

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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