Necroculture

Thorpe, Charles

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. 

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2019-03-08

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349931118

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-58303-1

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 270