The Cinematic Anthropocene and the Future Politics of Killing

This article considers two films, Elysium (Neil Bloomkamp, 2013) and What Happened to Monday (Tommy Wirkola, 2017), in order to demonstrate that they foreshadow a paradigmatic shift in the relationship between biopolitics and thanatopolitics. According to Michel Foucault, and later Giorgio Agamben a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gregers Andersen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh University Press 2022-10-01
Series:Film-Philosophy
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Online Access:https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/film.2022.0207