TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heinrich,Ari Larissa
TI  - Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body 
T2  - Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
SN  - 9781478091035
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Science
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - 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
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/e132b890-8b0c-4cc0-bfe4-706b1dd99380
ER  -