A new article in Jacobin makes a key point about the zombie metaphor, thought of in terms of economics. It's about labor: its control, its uses.
While images of insatiable flesh-eating can cleverly lampoon a late capitalism choking on its own excesses, these satires too readily lose sight of what the Haitian image of the undead grasped: that all this manic consumption is impossible without the millions of workers who feed the machinery of profit with their labor.
The Hammer film The Plague of the Zombies was good for this as well.
Posted by: Steven Kaye | October 25, 2012 at 19:58
Never saw it. Labor unrest in Cornwall?
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