TY - JOUR A1 - Thorpe, Charles T1 - The Necroculture of Capitalism [application of Fromm's theories to art] T2 - Necroculture, New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2016, pp. 1-52. [Online ISBN 978-1-137-58303-1] [doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58303-1_1] N2 - In the television series >The Walking Dead<, survivors of an apocalypse take shelter in a prison, while zombies circle the fences looking for a way in. The zombies are shadows cast by a past to which the survivors cannot return but which they cannot escape. The living dead represent the past that, as Karl Marx wrote, >weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.< The prison that holds us today is what right-wing philosopher Francis Fukuyama called >the end of history,< a predicament in which >we cannot picture to ourselves a world that is essentially different from the present one, and at the same time better.< Y1 - 2016 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-Fromm/frontdoor/index/index/docId/38300 ER -