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Body Shock The Political Aesthetics of Death

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Abstract: In a global media market, images of war and victimhood are
trafficked as master tropes of trauma situations with immense emotional
appeal. Concurrent with this transformation of historical atrocities
into consumable commodities, new forms of spectatorship—focused on
bodies, medicine, and death—are being produced by the entertainment
industry. The article examines this fascination with corpses by focusing
on Body Worlds, a traveling anatomical exhibit that was initially launched
in Germany. I interrogate the means by which dissected corpses are presented
as popular entertainment in a post-Holocaust society and seek
to explain the installation’s global appeal. My research reveals that the
collusion between the state and private enterprise not only endorses the
global traffic in corpses but also enables the public spectacle of anatomical
human bodies by negating subjectivity, violence, and history.

Keywords: aesthetics, Body Worlds, capitalism, corpses, death, Germany,
history, sexualization
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Social Analysis

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: Berghahn Journals., 2010

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Social Analysis, Volume 54, Issue 2, Summer 2010, 80–98

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