Necroculture
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.
Keywords
Social ScienceMedia StudiesSociology of ReligionSociology
2016Book
Author(s)Charles Thorpe
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9781137583024
LanguageEnglish
