ANTHROP 4BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Performativity, Harrisburg Seven, Judith Butler

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Haitian: no control over their body or soul, lower class, used for slave work, the victim, often made zombie out of revenge. Hollywood: rabid, loss of mind, out of control/homogenous, often killed and mutilated, no care for their body, dangerous; the enemy. Zombies as a critique of modernity --consumption, capitalism and exploitative labour practices; hyper-disciplined and docile. Attack (usually) in groups, and are difficult to contain (spatially) or eliminate. Highlight the weaknesses of the nation-state in creating a safe population. Challenge or blur modernist dichtomies that we have come to naturalize eg. private/public space, nature/culture. Marxist (frankfurt school) interpretation of capitalism and consumerism = critical. In early films and haitian interpretations capitalism, combined with new desires and nostalgia for the other fuels consumption such that desire = need; eg. tourism. Problems with marx: utopian models of communism have not worked in practice eg. dissolution of.

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