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Des pièces de go sur l’échiquier : Vitesse(s) et mouvement(s) révolutionnaire(s) dans le film de zombies contemporain
Go Stones on the Chessboard: Revolutionary Velocity in Contemporary Zombie Films

Author(s): Oliver Thibodeau
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: Zombie; Cinema; Dromocracy; Speed; Proletariat; Revolution; Paul Virilio; Gilles Deleuze;

Summary/Abstract: 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.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 38
  • Page Range: 118-128
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: French
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