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Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism
Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7452-7
Publication date:
2016
Book Chapter
Epilogue: The Revenge of the Iron Chink
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Published:March 2016
The epilogue offers a meditation on an exhibit featuring an early twentieth-century fish-gutting machine called the “Iron Chink” that personifies a racist slur. Artist Tommy Ting’s reanimation of the Iron Chink in his 2012 sculpture Machine (Iron Chink, invented in 1903, found at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery in Steveston, British Columbia, refabricated in Beijing, China) animates its contemporary significance. Examining how Ting’s sculpture recontextualizes the original machine, the epilogue reflects on the aesthetic and biological dimensions of capitalism that are tracked through the book. Probing the question of value in capitalism as the central motor of the metaphoric work...
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