Chinese Surplus Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body |
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| Author:
| Heinrich, Ari Larissa |
| Series title: | Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8223-7053-6 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2018 |
| Publisher: | Duke University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $26.95USD $27.95 |
Book Description:
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Ari 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.
Ari 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.