Necroculture:

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 reflect...

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Main Author: Thorpe, Charles 1973- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan [2016]
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Summary: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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:v, 270 pages
ISBN:1137583029
9781137583024

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