Open AccessDes pièces de go sur l’échiquier : Vitesse(s) et mouvement(s) révolutionnaire(s) dans le film de zombies contemporain
Author(s) -
Olivier Thibodeau
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
caietele echinox
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1582-960X
DOI - 10.24193/cechinox.2020.38.09
Subject(s) - zombie , capitalism , proletariat , metaphor , humanities , art , art history , order (exchange) , power (physics) , philosophy , political science , theology , economics , law , physics , computer security , finance , quantum mechanics , politics , computer science
The zombie as metaphor for the mindless consumer of late capitalism, popularized by George Romero’s seminal masterpiece, Dawn of the Dead, has grown stale as a critical model for globalized capitalism in light of its power not to embrace, but to disrupt the dromocratic order in which capitalism is rooted. If it is fair to assimilate the zombie mass to the proletarian class freed from the shackles of “productive” labor, it is of greater importance today to address its freedom from the whole kinetic organization of life under capitalist state rule.