Zombie Politics and Other Late Modern Monstrosities in the Age of Disposability

Autor/in	Giroux, Henry A.
Titel	Zombie Politics and Other Late Modern Monstrosities in the Age of Disposability
Quelle	In: Policy Futures in Education, 8 (2010) 1, S.1-7 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1478-2103
DOI	10.2304/pfie.2010.8.1.1
Schlagwörter	Mass Media; Popular Culture; Television; Human Body; Death; Mobility; Political Issues; Political Power; Economic Climate; Economic Factors; Disadvantaged; Differences; Social Attitudes; Health Services + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Massenmedien; Popkultur; Fernsehen; Fernsehtechnik; Menschlicher Körper; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Mobilität; Mobilitätsförderung; Politischer Faktor; Politische Macht; Wirtschaftslage; Ökonomischer Faktor; Unterscheiden; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Health service; Gesundheitsdienst; Gesundheitswesen
Abstract	At present Americans are fascinated by a particular kind of monstrosity, by vampires and zombies condemned to live an eternity by feeding off the souls of the living. The preoccupation with such parasitic relations speaks uncannily to the threat most Americans perceive from the shameless blood lust of contemporary captains of industry, which Matt Taibbi, a writer for "Rolling Stone," has aptly described as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money." Media culture, as the enormous popularity of the "Twilight" television franchise and HBO's "True Blood" reveals, is nonetheless enchanted by this seductive force of such omnipotent beings. More frightening, however, than the danger posed by these creatures is the coming revolution enacted by the hordes of the unthinking, caught in the spell of voodoo economics and compelled to acts of obscene violence and mayhem. They are the living dead, whose contagion threatens the very life force of the nation. (Contains 23 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10