The Zombie Economy and the Aesthetic of Austerity
This article explores the present-day zombie economy as the embodiment of the aesthetic of austerity in Anglo-America. It uses the zombie monster metaphor to capture the multi-scalar manifestations of crisis under conditions of enduring austerity in unique ways. The theme of undeath, or living death...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:angles_582 https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.582 urn:doi:10.4000/angles.582 en https://journals.openedition.org/angles/582 2020-07-16T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/9mym https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The Zombie Economy and the Aesthetic of Austerity Angles Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2274-2042 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/angles Cain, Ruth Montgomerie, Johnna néolibéralisme économie zombie austérité esthétique santé maladie mentale neoliberalism zombie economy austerity aesthetic health mental illness This article explores the present-day zombie economy as the embodiment of the aesthetic of austerity in Anglo-America. It uses the zombie monster metaphor to capture the multi-scalar manifestations of crisis under conditions of enduring austerity in unique ways. The theme of undeath, or living death, connects ‘dead’ economic ideas that are reanimated through the zombie economy to the logic of ‘there is no alternative’ (TINA). Moreover, the zombie monster permits a visceral connection between the harm inflicted on people’s physical and mental health and the underlying set of values perpetuated by austerity. It is the crisis at the scale of the body that manifests as the zombie macroeconomy of austerity. The contribution of this paper is that it articulates the aesthetic of austerity as the troubled boundary between what is alive and what is dead, which in a corporeal form is an absolute binary, but in political-economic terms is currently in flux. Cet article s’attache à étudier l’économie zombie contemporaine, en tant qu’incarnation de l’esthétique de l’austérité dans le monde anglo-américain. Il recourt à la métaphore du monstre zombie pour saisir de manière originale les manifestations multi-scalaires de la crise dans un contexte d’austérité continue. Le thème du mort-vivant relie les idées économiques « mortes » qui sont réanimées par l’économie zombie à la logique de l’absence d’alternative (« There Is No Alternative », ou TINA). Par ailleurs, le monstre zombie permet de connecter, de manière viscérale, les atteintes portées à la santé physique et mentale des personnes, et les valeurs sous-jacentes perpétuées par l’austérité. C’est la crise à l’échelle du corps qui se manifeste sous la forme de la macro-économie zombie de l’austérité. Cet article propose de penser l’esthétique de l’austérité comme la frontière problématique entre ce qui est vivant et ce qui est mort — une distinction binaire en termes corporels mais fluctuante en termes politiques et économiques. |
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This article explores the present-day zombie economy as the embodiment of the aesthetic of austerity in Anglo-America. It uses the zombie monster metaphor to capture the multi-scalar manifestations of crisis under conditions of enduring austerity in unique ways. The theme of undeath, or living death, connects ‘dead’ economic ideas that are reanimated through the zombie economy to the logic of ‘there is no alternative’ (TINA). Moreover, the zombie monster permits a visceral connection between the harm inflicted on people’s physical and mental health and the underlying set of values perpetuated by austerity. It is the crisis at the scale of the body that manifests as the zombie macroeconomy of austerity. The contribution of this paper is that it articulates the aesthetic of austerity as the troubled boundary between what is alive and what is dead, which in a corporeal form is an absolute binary, but in political-economic terms is currently in flux. |
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