Chinese Surplus : Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body / Ari Larissa Heinrich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heinrich, Ari Larissa, author.

Series:

Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

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.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 Chinese Whispers

CHAPTER 2 Souvenirs of the Organ Trade

CHAPTER 3 Organ Economics

CHAPTER 4 Still Life

EPILOGUE All Rights Preserved

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

CC BY

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478091035

1478091037

OCLC:

1003854979