In the flesh, death policies in Otto; Up with Dead People of Bruce LaBruce
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http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9423-9474
Jose Platzeck
Abstract
This article analyzes the figure of zombie featured in the film Otto; or, Up with Dead People from the director Bruce LaBruce from a biopolitical perspective and with special interest to immunitarian functioning. We propose to make an analysis about what we call "policies of death" in light of the zombie as a biopolitical monster. In the First place, zombie allow us to inquire the form of qualification of life and the distribution of violence on bodies around the distinction, that can be read in the film, between living flesh and meat. Secondly, through the figure of Otto, it's possible to consider an analysis about sexuality and the corporeal architectures in relation with post-porn discourse. Finally, and with regard to the foregoing, the film opens an space to problematise the form of belonging and the community of dead-living in light of a certain neoliberal ethos and its mercantile interpellation. Thus, the figure of zombie allows, through the development of the article, to illuminate spaces of agency or a certain affirmative power within the immunitarian paradigm and the contemporary policies of death.
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biopolitics, immunology, zombie, sexuality, community
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