Laurence Coderre
Biographic Data
| ID | 213813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurence Coderre |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurence |
| FAMILY NAME | Coderre |
| SIGNATURE | CODERRE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Newborn Socialist Things: A Conversation with Laurence Coderre
Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China
Contemporary China is seen as a place of widespread commodification and consumerism, while the preceeding Maoist Cultural Revolution is typically understood as a time when goods were scarce and the state criticized what little consumption was possible. Indeed, with the exception of the likeness and words of Mao Zedong, both the media and material culture of the Cultural Revolution are often characterized as a void out of which the postsocialist w…
A Necessary Evil: Conceptualizing the Socialist Commodity under Mao
This article traces the conceptual lineage of a statement, made by Mao Zedong and published in 1975, describing the contemporary economic system in the People's Republic of China as a commodity economy. Any surprise we might feel in the face of this verdict says more about our own narrow understanding of the (capitalist) commodity than it does about the political economy of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). As I detail in this study, the conti…
The curator, the investor, and the dupe: Consumer desire and Chinese Cultural Revolution memorabilia
This article examines the discourse surrounding the collection of Cultural Revolution memorabilia in the contemporary People's Republic of China. The author focuses on the emergence of three key discursive figures: the collector/curator, the collector/investor, and the collector as dupe. At issue in the construction of each of these figures is the unsettling force of consumer desire, its ethics and negotiation. In the case of the curator and inve…
Counterattack: (Re)contextualizing propaganda
This article uses Fanji/Counterattack (Li Wenhua, Beijing Film Studio, 1976) as a case study to consider the importance of contextualization to the ‘propaganda process’. The film is intimately linked with elite politics of the closing years of the Cultural Revolution and was produced under the auspices of the Gang of Four. Although it was not released prior to the Gang of Four's arrest on 6 October 1976, it was used in the campaigns attacking the…
A Necessary Evil: Conceptualizing the Socialist Commodity under Mao
This article traces the conceptual lineage of a statement, made by Mao Zedong and published in 1975, describing the contemporary economic system in the People's Republic of China as a commodity economy. Any surprise we might feel in the face of this verdict says more about our own narrow understanding of the (capitalist) commodity than it does about the political economy of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). As I detail in this study, the conti…
The curator, the investor, and the dupe: Consumer desire and Chinese Cultural Revolution memorabilia
This article examines the discourse surrounding the collection of Cultural Revolution memorabilia in the contemporary People's Republic of China. The author focuses on the emergence of three key discursive figures: the collector/curator, the collector/investor, and the collector as dupe. At issue in the construction of each of these figures is the unsettling force of consumer desire, its ethics and negotiation. In the case of the curator and inve…
Counterattack: (Re)contextualizing propaganda
This article uses Fanji/Counterattack (Li Wenhua, Beijing Film Studio, 1976) as a case study to consider the importance of contextualization to the ‘propaganda process’. The film is intimately linked with elite politics of the closing years of the Cultural Revolution and was produced under the auspices of the Gang of Four. Although it was not released prior to the Gang of Four's arrest on 6 October 1976, it was used in the campaigns attacking the…
The curator, the investor, and the dupe: Consumer desire and Chinese Cultural Revolution memorabilia
This article examines the discourse surrounding the collection of Cultural Revolution memorabilia in the contemporary People's Republic of China. The author focuses on the emergence of three key discursive figures: the collector/curator, the collector/investor, and the collector as dupe. At issue in the construction of each of these figures is the unsettling force of consumer desire, its ethics and negotiation. In the case of the curator and inve…
A Necessary Evil: Conceptualizing the Socialist Commodity under Mao
This article traces the conceptual lineage of a statement, made by Mao Zedong and published in 1975, describing the contemporary economic system in the People's Republic of China as a commodity economy. Any surprise we might feel in the face of this verdict says more about our own narrow understanding of the (capitalist) commodity than it does about the political economy of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). As I detail in this study, the conti…
Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China
Contemporary China is seen as a place of widespread commodification and consumerism, while the preceeding Maoist Cultural Revolution is typically understood as a time when goods were scarce and the state criticized what little consumption was possible. Indeed, with the exception of the likeness and words of Mao Zedong, both the media and material culture of the Cultural Revolution are often characterized as a void out of which the postsocialist w…
Newborn Socialist Things: A Conversation with Laurence Coderre
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (3 works) · Commodity (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · China (2 works)