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Record Nr.

UNINA9910253345903321

Autore

Thorpe Charles

Titolo

Necroculture / / by Charles Thorpe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9781137583031

1137583037

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

330.122

Soggetti

Mass media

Culture

Media Sociology

Sociology of Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: The Necroculture of Capitalism -- Chapter 2: Artificial Life on a Dead Planet -- Chapter 3: Speed and Stasis -- Chapter 4: The Pornography of Information -- Chapter 5: The Tyranny of Negative Freedom. .

Sommario/riassunto

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. .