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Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe Ser.: Chinese Surplus : Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body by Ari Larissa Heinrich (2018, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-100822370530
ISBN-139780822370536
eBay Product ID (ePID)235593990
Product Key Features
Number of Pages264 Pages
Publication NameChinese Surplus : Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body
LanguageEnglish
SubjectConceptual, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Mind & Body, General, Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology, Aesthetics, Asia / China, Subjects & Themes / Human Figure
Publication Year2018
TypeTextbook
AuthorAri Larissa Heinrich
Subject AreaArt, Philosophy, Science, Medical, History
SeriesPerverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight12.8 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2017-035989
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsA compelling account of how the aesthetics of corporeal politics has come to condition the rhetorics and epistemologies of life, realism, existence, authenticity, technology, reproduction, and the body itself, Chinese Surplus will forever change the way we think about the power of visual embodiment in an age of increasing angst over property/propriety rights, technological determinism, and human's role in their imbricated historical legacy., Chinese Surplus is a timely, deeply moving, and consequential work, one that is both intellectually and affectively engaging. It significantly advances contemporary debates about the international division of humanity, affective and immaterial labor, biopolitics and biopower, imperial legacies, and globalization. A model of interdisciplinary scholarship, its ambitious originality will become a yardstick against which future studies will be measured., In this important and complex work, Ari Larissa Heinrich continues his interrogation with the politics of the body through a systematic examination of various representations of the medically commodified body in contemporary Chinese and transnational literature, media, art, visual culture, and popular science. Incorporating both political economy and aesthetics, this examination opens up new ways to thinking about the interrelationship and interpenetration between science, medicine, commodity, and the arts in modern and contemporary environments. The book's broad scope and in-depth probing will appeal to scholars and students in diverse fields., Chinese Surplus is an ambitious project that weaves together a transnational and transhistorical consideration of aesthetic production and biomedical commodification. . . . Heinrich's project does the groundbreaking work of connecting the global power dynamics of contemporary cultural productions engaged with fragmentation and labeled inauthentic with longer histories of imperialism., In this important and complex work, Ari Larissa Heinrich continues his interrogation with the politics of the body through a systematic examination of various representations of the medically commodified body in contemporary Chinese and transnational literature, media, art, visual culture, and popular science. Incorporating both political economy and aesthetics, this examination opens up new ways to thinking about the interrelationship and interpenetration between science, medicine, commodity, and the arts in modern and contemporary environments.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal128.60951
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments 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
SynopsisAri Larissa Heinrich examines transnational Chinese aesthetic production--from the earliest appearance of Frankenstein in China to the more recent phenomenon of "cadaver art"-- to demonstrate how representations of the medically commodified body can illuminate the effects of biopolitical violence and postcolonialism in contemporary life., 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.
LC Classification NumberB105.B64H456 2018
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