Biopolitics of the Zombie Corpses: Collectivity, Contagion, and Alterity
Inasmuch as the society is considered as a body today, social problems should be defined accordingly, as problems of hygiene and cleanliness. In this regard, various representations of zombie corpses in zombie movies can be conceived as concrete examples of threat and a perception of disease. In th...
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Inasmuch as the society is considered as a body today, social problems should be defined accordingly, as problems of hygiene and cleanliness. In this regard, various representations of zombie corpses in zombie movies can be conceived as concrete examples of threat and a perception of disease. In this article, I claim that the zombie figures in cinema bear a positive potential for the social life of humanity, and I will define this potential as a new opportunity for meeting the absolute alterity. Within this context, I analyse 28 Weeks Later and The World War Z and The Girl with All the Gifts to put forth the idea that what enables emancipation of humanity is contagion and alterity. Rather than destroying the capitalist rationalization without offering any alternatives, zombie corpses enounce the birth of a new form of social life as analysed through Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
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| spelling | doaj.art-1c323880313540858f686db42b3a99f92024-04-23T09:06:30ZengVilnius University PressProblemos1392-11262424-61582023-10-0110410.15388/Problemos.2023.104.8Biopolitics of the Zombie Corpses: Collectivity, Contagion, and AlterityOnur Kartal0Aydin Adnan Menderes University, Turkey Inasmuch as the society is considered as a body today, social problems should be defined accordingly, as problems of hygiene and cleanliness. In this regard, various representations of zombie corpses in zombie movies can be conceived as concrete examples of threat and a perception of disease. In this article, I claim that the zombie figures in cinema bear a positive potential for the social life of humanity, and I will define this potential as a new opportunity for meeting the absolute alterity. Within this context, I analyse 28 Weeks Later and The World War Z and The Girl with All the Gifts to put forth the idea that what enables emancipation of humanity is contagion and alterity. Rather than destroying the capitalist rationalization without offering any alternatives, zombie corpses enounce the birth of a new form of social life as analysed through Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. https://www.journals.vu.lt/problemos/article/view/33379ZombieCorpseContagionAlterityBiopolitics |
| spellingShingle | Onur Kartal Biopolitics of the Zombie Corpses: Collectivity, Contagion, and Alterity Problemos Zombie Corpse Contagion Alterity Biopolitics |
| title | Biopolitics of the Zombie Corpses: Collectivity, Contagion, and Alterity |
| title_full | Biopolitics of the Zombie Corpses: Collectivity, Contagion, and Alterity |
| title_fullStr | Biopolitics of the Zombie Corpses: Collectivity, Contagion, and Alterity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Biopolitics of the Zombie Corpses: Collectivity, Contagion, and Alterity |
| title_short | Biopolitics of the Zombie Corpses: Collectivity, Contagion, and Alterity |
| title_sort | biopolitics of the zombie corpses collectivity contagion and alterity |
| topic | Zombie Corpse Contagion Alterity Biopolitics |
| url | https://www.journals.vu.lt/problemos/article/view/33379 |
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