Critical geosophies
A pyschotopological reading of Rice's vampires and Romero's zombies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5157965 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kolson Schlosser (0000-0003-2729-6000, Temple University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 533-549 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0263775816662468 |
| OpenAlex | W2484150949 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 42 |
Anne Rice and George Romero are two of the foremost transformative authors of vampire and zombie fiction in the United States. This reading of their work applies a psychotopological lens to the first two novels of Rice's Vampire Chronicles and the first three films of Romero's Living Dead series. It differs from numerous preceding analyses of monster fiction mostly in the theoretical apparatus it articulates to link the psychic fear vampires and zombies evoke with the topologies of space and power they evince. This intervention invokes a negative understanding of dialectical materialism to analyze human-monster thresholds as political sites. It builds this theorization primarily from the works of Slavoj Žižek, Sara Ahmed, Julia Kristeva, Kojin Karatani, and to a lesser extent Joan Copjec. The result is a psychotopological analysis that challenges understandings of the monster as either timeless allegories for the systemic order or as endlessly interpretive contingencies. It also reads the topological forms of Rice's vampires and Romero's zombies in relation to each other. Understanding psychic space and topologies of power as integral to each other helps read the vampire and the zombie as myths which endure because of the fears of class exploitation and social collectivism they stoke
Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Monster · Mythology · Politics · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Subversion · Vampire · Zombie · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Modern American Literature Studies · Psychology · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy
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Powers of Horror
Our Vampires, Ourselves
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan
Sociable happiness
Consuming Youth
Monsters of the Market
Pretend We're Dead
The History of Gothic Fiction
Science and Social Science in Bram Stoker's Fiction
The History of Gothic Fiction
The Promise of Happiness
Critique is impossible without moves’
Topologies of practice
Capitalist Monsters
Breached Bodies and Home Invasions
Towards a post-mathematical topology
Liberation Topology
Urban Geography Plenary Lecture Topological City
The Nature of Things
The Shock of the Real
Capitalism's Anxious Whole
Geography, space and the re-emergence of topological thinking
Mapping the “Unconscious”
Did somebody say jouissance? On Slavoj Žižek, consumption, and nationalism
The tactile topologies of Contagion
Beastly minds
From beyond
A thousand plateaus
A Zombie Manifesto
The Sub-Subaltern Monster
Zombie geographies and the undead city
Psychotopologies
Žižek's Dialectics of Difference and the Problem of Space
Introducing psychoanalytic geographies
The extimacy of space
Slaves, Cannibals, and Infected Hyper-Whites
The Political Unconscious
Introduction
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2022 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |