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So Much Wasted, Patrick Anderson analyzes selfstarvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison.
Homing in on those who starve themselves for various reasons and the cultural and political contexts in which they do so, he examines the diagnostic history of anorexia nervosa, fasts staged by artists including Ana Mendieta and Marina Abramović, and a hunger strike initiated by Turkish prisoners.
Anderson explores what it means for the clinic, the gallery, and the prison when one performs a refusal to consume as a strategy of negation or resistance, and the ways that selfstarvation, as a project of refusal aimed, however unconsciously, toward 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

selfstarvation 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, and life and death are intertwined.
self starvation is a knotted topic and there was something going on, i thot, especially after reading the hunger artist by kafka so long ago.
there is something really raw and weird in self starvation, and i think the conventional discourse around eating disorders is a little alienating and wrong.
this book writes about the possibility of self starvation as a radical assertion of agency for artists and other subversive folks.
Librarian Note:There is than one author in the Goodreads database with this name, Patrick Anderson is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, the Department of Ethnic Studies, and the Critical Gender Studies Program, at the University of California, San Diego.
source: sitelink Librarian Note:There is than one author in the Goodreads database with this name, Patrick Anderson is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, the Department of Ethnic Studies, and the Critical Gender Studies Program, at the University of California, San Diego.
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