elucubrare:by petrichoro on instagramreading Anne Cheng’s Ornamentalism and looking at these doughnu
elucubrare:by petrichoro on instagramreading Anne Cheng’s Ornamentalism and looking at these doughnuts is actually murdering my little pea brain,,,Imported goods and materials of Asia and the Americas held novel, structural properties like durability or elasticity that Europeans not only strove to imitate and harness for their own manufacturing but also increasingly came to associate and project onto the racialised bodies from whom these objects came. […] Porcelain thus connoted both hardness and plasticity, old-world beauty and new-world technology, fragile daintiness and insensate coolness: a mixture of antithetical symbolic meanings that are then ascribed to, indeed, become the very “stuff” of Asiatic femininity.The seemingly trite association of Asiatic female skin with porcelain–from the cliché of the pearlized skin of Asian women to this exhibit–thus in fact carries this profound and layered history of ornamentalist transformation, affecting the merging of flesh and matter, persons and things.(Ornamentalism, pp. 93 - 94)and this is a “porcelain” DOUGHNUT. an object referencing another object. sugar (a colonial good) standing in for china (another colonial good). and it is literally consumable. -- source link