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The threshold of the monstrous, between dehumanization and necro-capitalism

Autori

  • Vincenzo Di Mino Indipendent researcher in political and social theory

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-9251/20831

Parole chiave:

dehumanization, production of monstrosity, necro-capitalism, multiple social and political layers, crisis

Abstract

The subject of the following contribution is a discussion of the theses in R.L.Smith's volume 'Making Monster,' on the relationship between processes of dehumanization and the production of monstrosity. Reading the multiple facets of this link, the contribution tries to highlight some lines of analysis. The first of analysis concerns on the epistemic status of the concept of dehumanization. The second, on the other hand, concerns the actual dimensions of the processes of monstrosity production within the multiple social, temporal and political layers of the concept of crisis.

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Pubblicato

2023-08-08

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Sezione

The anomalous and the deformed in nature and in art: Monstrous births and human phenomena between myth and metaphor (ed. by M. Mascherini, B. Accarino)