Undead-Ends
Zombie Debt/Zombie Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16715342 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fred Botting (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Postmodern Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1053-1920 • E-ISSN: 1053-1920 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/pmc.2013.0043 |
| OpenAlex | W2114387450 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
This essay examines the ways in which contemporary economic discourse uses the zombie metaphor. It situates these uses in relation to the current resurgence of zombies in popular fiction and film, and distinguishes zombies from vampires: while the former signifies global debt and stagnation, the latter connotes credit and consumer boom. It argues that the arc of desire and fear engendered by these figures of horror discloses a continuity in the affective trajectory of neo-liberalism as it supplants traditional philosophical distinctions between material and symbolic forms of debt. Rather than operating with a distinction between spiritual and financial modes of guilt/debt, an economic absorption of cultural values circumvents the need for subjective or symbolic inscriptions, and institutes the debt-relation directly and materially
Aesthetics · Art · Boom · Debt · Economics · Liberalism · Linguistics · Literature · Metaphor · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Positive economics · Relation (database · Sociology · Zombie · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Law · Philosophy · Finance
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |