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So Much Wasted – Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance

Autor Patrick Anderson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 oct 2010
In So Much Wasted Patrick Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison. Honing in on the complicated relationship between those who starve themselves for various reasons and the cultural and political contexts of which they are a part, he examines the diagnostic history of anorexia nervosa, fasts staged by artists including Ana Mendieta and Marina Abramovic, and a hunger strike initiated by Turkish prisoners. Anderson explores what it means for the clinic, gallery, and prison for one to perform a refusal to consume as a strategy of negation or resistance, and how self-starvation, as a project of refusal aimed (however unconsciously) towards death, produces violence, suffering, disappearance, and loss differently from other practices. Drawing on the work of Martin Heidegger, Sigmund Freud, Giorgio Agamben, Peggy Phelan, and others, he considers how the subject of self-starvation is refigured in relation to larger institutional and ideological drives, including those of the state. The ontological significance of performance as disappearance constitutes what Anderson calls the “politics of morbidity,” the embodied, interventional embrace of mortality and disappearance not as destructive, but rather as radically productive stagings of subject formations in which subjectivity and objecthood, presence and absence, life and death, intertwine.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822348283
ISBN-10: 0822348284
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 146 x 232 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Hunger in the Event of Subjectivity; 1. The Archive of Anorexia; 2. Enduring Performance; 3. How to Stage Self-Consumption; 4. To Lie Down to Death for Days; Afterword: The Ends of HungerNotes; References; Index

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“In this brilliant and important book, Patrick Anderson dramatically expands our understanding of anorexia by foregrounding its theatricality and reflexivity, and linking it to prison hunger strikes and certain kinds of endurance art. He shows us how central the self is to all of these practices, both as object, and as agent. Self-starvation is often the theatre of last resort, the stage on which a person performs when all others have been removed. It can also be a way of spitting out the poisonous images that one has been forced to incorporate. And even a well-balanced meal is not psychically nourishing when you are compelled to eat it, Anderson argues in the last and most compelling chapter of this book. Force-feeding does not support life; it promotes, rather, a living death.”—Kaja Silverman, University of California, Berkeley“Patrick Anderson has written a wonderful book, one that will have a real impact on the field of performance studies. The topic that he has chosen is important and timely: The forced feeding of prisoners on a hunger strike at Guantánamo, the anorexia epidemic among young women (and now men), and the removal of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube are only some of the most recent and urgent questions that have surfaced around the practice and politics of starvation and who, ultimately, has the power over the individual body.”—Diana Taylor, author of The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas
"In this brilliant and important book, Patrick Anderson dramatically expands our understanding of anorexia by foregrounding its theatricality and reflexivity, and linking it to prison hunger strikes and certain kinds of endurance art. He shows us how central the self is to all of these practices, both as object, and as agent. Self-starvation is often the theatre of last resort, the stage on which a person performs when all others have been removed. It can also be a way of spitting out the poisonous images that one has been forced to incorporate. And even a well-balanced meal is not psychically nourishing when you are compelled to eat it, Anderson argues in the last and most compelling chapter of this book. Force-feeding does not support life; it promotes, rather, a living death."--Kaja Silverman, University of California, Berkeley "Patrick Anderson has written a wonderful book, one that will have a real impact on the field of performance studies. The topic that he has chosen is important and timely: The forced feeding of prisoners on a hunger strike at Guantanamo, the anorexia epidemic among young women (and now men), and the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube are only some of the most recent and urgent questions that have surfaced around the practice and politics of starvation and who, ultimately, has the power over the individual body."--Diana Taylor, author of The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas

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"Patrick Anderson has written a wonderful book, one that will have a real impact on the field of performance studies. The topic that he has chosen is important and timely: the forced feeding of prisoners on a hunger strike at Guantanamo, the anorexia epidemic among young women (and now men), and the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube are only some of the most recent and urgent questions that have surfaced around the practice and politics of starvation and who, ultimately, has the power over the individual body."--Diana Taylor, author of "The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas"

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An analysis of self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery and the prison