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So Much Wasted

Autor Patrick Anderson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 oct 2010

Autorul Patrick Anderson, profesor și cercetător interesat de intersecția dintre politică și estetică, propune în So Much Wasted o analiză riguroasă a înfometării autoimpuse, tratată nu ca patologie, ci ca act deliberat de poziționare în spațiul public. Publicată de Duke University Press, lucrarea investighează cum refuzul hranei devine un instrument de argumentare politică în contexte variate: de la mediul clinic al anorexiei, la spațiul de expunere al galeriilor de artă și până la celulele deținuților politici. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Anderson reușește să lege manifestări aparent disparate, precum performance-urile artiștilor Marina Abramović sau Ana Mendieta și grevele foamei din închisorile turcești, sub o singură umbrelă teoretică. Considerăm că forța acestui volum rezidă în fundamentarea sa pe concepte filosofice și psihanalitice solide, autorul apelând la Sigmund Freud, Martin Heidegger și Giorgio Agamben pentru a explica ceea ce el numește „politica morbidității”. Această structură narativă transformă corpul fragil într-o scenă unde viața și moartea, prezența și absența se întrepătrund pentru a contesta autoritatea statului sau a instituțiilor medicale. Textul completează perspectiva oferită de The Hunger Artists de Maud Ellmann, adăugând o dimensiune instituțională și ontologică mai vastă, care trece dincolo de fenomenologia literară către o critică socială aplicată. De asemenea, spre deosebire de Refusal to Eat – A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes de Nayan Shah, care oferă o istorie globală a grevelor foamei, lucrarea lui Anderson se concentrează pe mecanismul performativ al dispariției corpului ca formă de producție a subiectivității. Apreciem rigoarea cu care sunt analizate consecințele violenței și suferinței în aceste „puneri în scenă” radicale, oferind cititorului un cadru teoretic esențial pentru înțelegerea rezistenței prin negare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822348283
ISBN-10: 0822348284
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 147 x 233 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Duke University Press

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Această carte este esențială pentru studenții și cercetătorii din sociologie, studii culturale și arte vizuale. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care vulnerabilitatea extremă a corpului poate fi transformată într-o formă de putere politică. Este un titlu recomandat celor care doresc să exploreze limitele rezistenței umane și modul în care absența și refuzul pot comunica mesaje mai puternice decât orice discurs articulat.


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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.

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

Recenzii

“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"