The Cinematic Anthropocene and the Future Politics of Killing
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 21720401 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Gregers Andersen (0000-0003-0018-0905, Aalborg University, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2022 |
| Volumen | 26 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 394-410 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2022-10-01 |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Film-Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1466-4615 • E-ISSN: 1466-4615 |
| Editorial | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/film.2022.0207 |
| OpenAlex | W4295541367 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 2 |
| Referencias citadas | 5 |
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 and Roberto Esposito, it is chiefly the association of humans with biological danger that causes biopolitics to mutate into thanatopolitics. However, in these two films, humans are construed as an ecological danger that prompt thanatopolitics. They depict futures in which the regimes in power act on ecological threats by brutally micromanaging and killing members of their populations. In this the films unveil how the idea of sustainability as equilibrium can never benefit all, but must always leave some human beings out, either by abandoning them to die or by actively killing them. This is important because it brings to light the risk that the Anthropocene could engender regimes that will kill on different grounds than regimes have in the past
Anthropocene · Environmental ethics · Political science · Politics · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citas por año | 2 |
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| Intervalo de citas | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Altamente citado | No |