Necroculture, 1st ed. 2016

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In this book, the author draws on Karl Marx?s writings on alienation and Erich Fromm?s conception of necrophilia in order to understand these aspects of contemporary culture as expressions of the domination of the living by the dead under capitalism. Necroculture is the ideological reflection and material manifestation of this basic feature of capitalism: the rule of dead capital over living labor. The author argues that necroculture represents the subsumption of the world by vampire capital. 

Chapter 1: The Necroculture of Capitalism

Chapter 2: Artificial Life on a Dead Planet

Chapter 3: Speed and Stasis

Chapter 4: The Pornography of Information

Chapter 5: The Tyranny of Negative Freedom

Charles Thorpe is Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Science Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego, USA. He is the author of Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect (2006) and has been featured in The British Journal of Sociology, Science as Culture, Science Fiction Studies, and Theory, Culture and Society.

Combines writings from Karl Marx and Erich Fromm to conceive of the rule of dead capital over living labor

Establishes an understanding of necroculture that is useful to parse technofuturism, concerns with immortality, and more