'Warning! Zombies Ahead': Determinate negation, predatory capitalism, and globalised place making

Roxanne Chaitowitz; Shannon Brincat

doi:10.4324/9781351205030-10

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'Warning! Zombies Ahead': Determinate negation, predatory capitalism, and globalised place making

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'Warning! Zombies Ahead': Determinate negation, predatory capitalism, and globalised place making

Roxanne Chaitowitz and Shannon Brincat

Popular Geopolitics: Plotting an Evolving Interdiscipline, pp.197-215

Routledge Geopolitics Series, Routledge

2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351205030-10

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Political Science

Zombies are political creatures precisely because they give visual depiction and bring forth the chaos of the very real violence hidden under the ideological veil of Western capitalism as it moves into a peculiarly predatory phase. This chapter asserts the zombie as an allegory of the determinate negation of the human-being–of our uniqueness, will, labour, desires/needs and our intersubjective relations with others–under this global economic order. It illustrates the changes of zombie physiology, behaviour, and narratives, in cinematic history showing how these reflect the transitions in global political economy–a movement in which the labouring zombie has been displaced by the ravenous horde of consuming ghouls. Understanding the zombie as the determinate negation of human social relations under predatory capitalism reveals how our frenzied consumption is based on the predation of others and how this predation severs social relations, creating a swirling mass of isolated, atomised individuals.

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Title: 'Warning! Zombies Ahead': Determinate negation, predatory capitalism, and globalised place making
Authors: Roxanne Chaitowitz (Author) - The University of Queensland
Shannon Brincat (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Contributors: Robert A Saunders (Editor) - State University of New York
Vlad Strukov (Editor) - University of Leeds
Publication details: Popular Geopolitics: Plotting an Evolving Interdiscipline, pp.197-215
Series: Routledge Geopolitics Series
Publisher: Routledge
Date published: 2018
DOI: 10.4324/9781351205030-10; 10.4324/9781351205030
Organisation Unit: Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; Tropical Forests and People Research Centre; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Forest Research Institute; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450754602621
Output Type: Book chapter

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