Troyer, John (Author)
University of Minnesota
Archer, John
Edition Details: Advisor: Archer, John
Physical Details: 241 pp.
Language: English
The modern human corpse is an invented and manufactured consumer product that remains relatively unexhumed. While the construction of the contemporary postmodern subject lives a complicated daily existence, the postmortem subject remains an under unexplored figure. Late twentieth century discourse about the creation and control of the subject overlooked the extremely important construction of the human corpse as a no-longer living subject/object relation. My project examines this postmortem subject through a multi-part analysis of: (1) photography and embalming as used by the emerging nineteenth century as well as contemporary funeral industry, (2) the circulation and fluidity of the dead body both physiologically and on trains, (3) the invention of the modern, hyperstimulated corpse through mechanically enhanced forms of memory, (4) the handling of the socially abject HIV-AIDS corpse, (5) monuments and memorials built for the living and dead, (6) and finally, the material conditions of death as a nexus of sovereign power's use of biopolitics, thanatopolitics, and necropolitics.
...MoreDescription Discusses embalming and photography, transportation of corpses, handling of the HIV-AIDS corpse, and monuments for the dead. Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 67/06 (2006). UMI pub. no. 3220039.
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