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The Necroculture of Capitalism [application of Fromm's theories to art]

  • 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.<

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Author:Charles Thorpe
Parent Title (English):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]
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2016
Release Date:2024/04/04
Format:to purchase via publisher
IdNo:Thorpe_C_2016a
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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