Chinese Surplus - Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
Release date:	February 2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	Ari Larissa Heinrich
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-0-8223-7041-3
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > Conceptual art Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8223-7041-7
Barcode:	9780822370413

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