The Living Dead (was The End: was Re: Max Weber's Genteel Racism)

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Fri Dec 8 10:39:43 PST 2000


Carrol says:


>Michael Perelman wrote:
> > Finally, and this is my main point, this Brenner Wood stuff keeps
>cropping up.
>> It's like a horror movie. The monster is supposed to be dead, but
>>then it comes
>> back. The mere mention of Weber is enough to resurrect the beast.
>
>I personally am done with it for now -- but I like your comparison
>to a horror movie: Isn't that what capitalism is? To keep up the allegory
>for one more round: The Monster that keeps coming back to life is
>Commodity Fetishism.

It is metaphorically fitting that George Romero's _Night of the Living Dead_ was released in 1968 & _Dawn of the Dead_ in 1978.

Yoshie



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