Zombies and Citizens: The Ontopolitics of Disaster in Francis Lawrence's I Am Legend
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Zombies and Citizens : The Ontopolitics of Disaster in Francis Lawrence's I Am Legend. / Holm, Isak Winkel.
Hazardous future: disaster, representation and the assessment of risk. ed. / Isabel Capoa Gil; Christoph Wulf. Berlin : De Gruyter, 2015. p. 205-222.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Zombies and Citizens
T2 - The Ontopolitics of Disaster in Francis Lawrence's I Am Legend
AU - Holm, Isak Winkel
PY - 2015/4/1
Y1 - 2015/4/1
N2 - The so-called Darkseekers in Francis Lawrence's I Am Legend from 2007 cannot be categorized as regular zombies. Nevertheless, the movie unfolds in what I suggest calling a zombified space: a social space divided into two kinds of human beings with unequal ontological and legal status. Based on Judith Butler and Charles Taylor, the article explores the ontological interpretation going on in the movie – a kind of sovereign decision, typical for modern disaster movies, that draws a line around the political community and decides who is cast outside the social contract's circle of concern.
AB - The so-called Darkseekers in Francis Lawrence's I Am Legend from 2007 cannot be categorized as regular zombies. Nevertheless, the movie unfolds in what I suggest calling a zombified space: a social space divided into two kinds of human beings with unequal ontological and legal status. Based on Judith Butler and Charles Taylor, the article explores the ontological interpretation going on in the movie – a kind of sovereign decision, typical for modern disaster movies, that draws a line around the political community and decides who is cast outside the social contract's circle of concern.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - katastrofefiktion
KW - zombie
KW - Carl Schmitt
KW - retfærdighed
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9783110406528
SP - 205
EP - 222
BT - Hazardous future
A2 - Gil, Isabel Capoa
A2 - Wulf, Christoph
PB - De Gruyter
CY - Berlin
ER -
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