China's Last Communist: Ai Weiwei

Sorace, Christian

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“…81 Edelman 2004. 82 On the political aesthetics of mourning, see Sorace 2014. 83 Zuoshou moji 2018 distinguishing between "us" (survivors) and "them" (officials) on the basis of a refusal to abandon the past in exchange for the future on offer.…”

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The Chinese Communist Party's Nervous System: Affective Governance from Mao to Xi

Sorace¹

2021

The China Quarterly

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In its one hundred years of existence, the Communist Party of China has experimented with how to connect its narratives of legitimacy to people's affects. In this essay, I trace the conceptualization of gratitude, from its repudiation in the Mao era as a vestige of feudalism and imperialism to its return in the reform era as a re-verticalization of Party sovereignty. The paper addresses four examples of gratitude work: Politburo Standing Committee member Wang Yang's short-lived critique of gratitude in the name of a different conception of popular sovereignty; the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Sichuan earthquake as a day of gratitude; the detention of Uyghurs in Xinjiang who are taught to be grateful to the Communist Party in a campaign of religious de-radicalization; and the refusal of gratitude in quarantined Wuhan during the COVID-19 pandemic. In these cases, the Communist Party's sovereignty stands at the threshold between bio- and necro-politics, promising life and salvation in the midst of death and destruction.

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The Chinese Communist Party's Nervous System: Affective Governance from Mao to Xi

Sorace¹

2021

The China Quarterly

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“…Beyond the mere exploration of aesthetics and the production of art that manifests inner and intimal conditions of the author, artists are also given the role of manifesting their dissents and the dissent of their communities towards many aspects of our societies. For example, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is known for producing work the criticize the Chinese government and its censorship, thus being arrested and put in jail for almost 3 months in 2011 [20]. Similarly, Iranian film director Jafar Panahi's controversial movies about the restrictions placed upon women in Iran have so enraged Iranian authorities that Panahi has been arrested several times [21].…”

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The Benefits of a Convergence between Art and Engineering

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Rodgers

2021

HighTech. Innov. J.

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As design practitioners researchers and educators, we constantly find ourselves shuffled between humanities and sciences. In fact, the design departments in the universities around the globe are located within the faculties of engineering, architecture, visual art, liberal are or environmental sciences, thus becoming a meeting point for academics and professionals coming from both the humanities and sciences. The synergy resulting from the varieties of backgrounds and expertise creates a fertile ground for explorations on both a conceptual and a technical level. By briefly compiling and analysing a review of literature and creative works spanning from the renaissance to contemporary art, this paper reflects on the potential benefits of combining engineering and art research. The authors of this paper look at the increasingly delicate role that technicians, engineers and computer programmers play in developing technologies that impact our social, emotional and intimal lives, and advocate for art as a context and tool to help those professional developing their sensitivity and critical sense, besides their skills. In doing so, the paper makes a contribution to the STEM vs. STEAM conundrum, encouraging an education that merges arts and humanities disciplines with scientific and technical subjects. Doi: 10.28991/HIJ-2021-02-01-04 Full Text: PDF

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“…Figura 13: Ai Weiwei ao início do processo, na fundição em Chengdu, China Fonte: www.zodiacheads.com 13 Sobre o artista ver algumas referências na bibliografia (Gaensheimer, Krystof & Wolf, 2019;Sorace, 2014;Weiwei & Holzwarth, 2016 Quanto à semiologia das cabeças e possíveis transformações possíveis no seu périplo por diferentes ambientes e audiências, para quem conhece o trabalho de Ai Weiwei saberia tratar-se de um signo espesso e político com o confronto do Oriente com o Ocidente. Concretamente, a China antiga ou anterior ao regime comunista que regressa às obras de Weiwei.…”

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Mover o olhar sobre circulações da arte e receção

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2020

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Contribuição sobre culturas móveis, este texto aborda circulações físicas, visuais e imaginárias da arte com passagem do museu e de exposições para o espaço público. Assim, arte de indoors para outdoors com mutações que atravessam os quadros da visitabilidade, semiologia, mediações e modos de perceção versus receção. Algumas recriações de Las Meninas de Diego Velázquez e Zodiac Heads/Circle of Animals de Ai Weiwei são exemplos em contraponto que ilustram a problemática da mobilidade, com metamorfoses e itinerâncias. Mover o olhar significa seguir essas viagens como um salto interpretativo sobre contextos e relações com a arte.

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China's Last Communist: Ai Weiwei

Cited by 25 publications

References 7 publications

The Chinese Communist Party's Nervous System: Affective Governance from Mao to Xi

The Chinese Communist Party's Nervous System: Affective Governance from Mao to Xi

The Benefits of a Convergence between Art and Engineering

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