Charles Thorpe’s Necroculture attempts to demonstrate that the variegated experiences of alienation under the technocratic culture of neoliberal capital are experiences tantamount to a culture of death. Thorpe suggests that the root of the necrophilia that defines contemporary capitalist culture is in the valuing of non-living objects over living human beings. In the alienation and replacement of imperfect human labor with automated dead labor and in a highly atomized consumer culture where social participation is mediated by commodity fetishism, the non-living are given priority over the living.
Articles by Seth Cosimini
Seth Cosimini is a PhD candidate in English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. His research engages with the literature, culture, and thought of the African diaspora and also with American literature and performance studies. His dissertation is “Imagined Cemeteries: Mortuary Rituals, Race, and Violence in American Literature.”