Jimmie Higgins
31st October 2012, 08:32
Zombies: Apocalypse or Rebellion? (http://jacobinmag.com/2012/10/zombies-apocalypse-or-rebellion/)
I'm about 1/2 of the way through this author's book "Monsters of the Market" which is about Marxism and modern monsters in literature and film.
The first section is about "Frankestein" but in the contect of the effects of enclosure on people in England, the use of public dissections of prisoners and the poor to symbolically demonstrate bougois science and reason over the "motley" proto-proletarian "mob", and Shellys' liberal radicalism inspired by the French Revolutionary period.
The stuff about dissection, bourgois political use of anatomy, and the fight over control of the bodies of the poor after death was just amazing.
The section I'm reading now is about Marx's Capital and use of monster-metaphores.
A very fun (in a nerdy marxist way) seasonal reading with some interesting history.
I'm about 1/2 of the way through this author's book "Monsters of the Market" which is about Marxism and modern monsters in literature and film.
The first section is about "Frankestein" but in the contect of the effects of enclosure on people in England, the use of public dissections of prisoners and the poor to symbolically demonstrate bougois science and reason over the "motley" proto-proletarian "mob", and Shellys' liberal radicalism inspired by the French Revolutionary period.
The stuff about dissection, bourgois political use of anatomy, and the fight over control of the bodies of the poor after death was just amazing.
The section I'm reading now is about Marx's Capital and use of monster-metaphores.
A very fun (in a nerdy marxist way) seasonal reading with some interesting history.