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Canavan, Gerry. "“If the Engine Ever Stops, We’d All Die”: Snowpiercer and Necrofuturism." Paradoxa 26. (2014): 41–66. Added by: joachim (4/3/16, 10:54 PM) Last edited by: joachim (8/4/18, 1:00 PM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English BibTeX citation key: Canavan2014 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Le Transperceneige", Adaptation, Film adaptation, France, Lob. Jacques, Rochette. Jean-Marc, Science Fiction Creators: Canavan Collection: Paradoxa |
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| Attachments | URLs https://www.academ ... nd_Necrofuturism._ |
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Applying Mark Fisher’s “capitalist realism” and Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee’s “necrocapitalism” to the study of sf, this article reads the post-apocalyptic French comic Le Transperceneige (1982) and its film adaptation Snowpiercer (2014) as critiques of necrofuturist visions of the future. Necrofuturism posits a future that is doomed to continue modern capitalism’s unsustainable and immoral practices even as those practices become more and more destructive and self-defeating; films such as Snowpiercer interrupt this well-rehearsed vision of a world of universal death to open the mind to new possibilities for alternative futures. Key to Snowpiercer’s critique of necrofuturism is its depiction of necrocapitalism as a deliberately constructed thing, rather than a law of nature, reminding us that someone chose to build this world of unhappiness and prompting us to recognize that other sorts of worlds might be built instead.
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