Necroculture

Necroculture
ISBN-10
1137583037
ISBN-13
9781137583031
Category
Social Science
Pages
270
Language
English
Published
2016-06-24
Publisher
Springer
Author
Charles Thorpe

Description

In this book, the author draws on Karl Marx’s writings on alienation and Erich Fromm’s conception of necrophilia in order to understand these aspects of contemporary culture as expressions of the domination of the living by the dead under capitalism. Necroculture is the ideological reflection and material manifestation of this basic feature of capitalism: the rule of dead capital over living labor. The author argues that necroculture represents the subsumption of the world by vampire capital.

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