Chinese Surplus
Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body
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Word Count
66,000 words, Guess
Page Count
264 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archivechinesesurplus00hein
- ISBN-100822370530
- ISBN-139780822370536
- Library of Congress Control Number2017035989
- OCLC Control Number978287699
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780822370536
- Open LibraryOL27368422M
Classifications
- LCCB105.B64 H456 2018
- LCCB105.B64H456 2018
Description
In CHINESE SURPLUS Ari Heinrich dissects the figure of the medically or artistically commodified body in Chinese culture and popular science. Providing a history of how bodies have been thought and seen to mirror the nation, Heinrich charts the trajectory from an imperial idea of the body as a machine with interchangeable parts to current representations in which the parts are worth more than the whole and may be harvested at will--what he calls a diasporic form of the body. In seeing the body this way Heinrich makes clear his case for a new method he calls biopolitical aesthetics, one that uses the tools of literary and visual culture analysis to restore agency to aesthetics in the production of meaning in life during contemporary biopolitical times.
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