Liberation Theology and Zombies: Paralysis and Praxis |
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Authors: | Charles Samuel Christie Pemberton |
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Institution: | Durham University, Durham, UK |
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Abstract: | In Fredric Jameson's formulation it may now be “easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.” What Jameson suggests is that our current preoccupation with the drama of the apocalyptic belies a deeper paralysis of the imagination, and with this the concomitant loss of actions conducive to a new politics. Jameson's comments here foreground a contradiction in our experience of late capitalism, representations of dramatic rupture which obscure fundamental political stasis. This paper takes Jameson's reflections and the contradiction of action which is also non-action as the point of departure to query the current state of Liberation Theology, particularly the work of Ivan Petrella, to defend the work of Gustavo Gutiérrez, and ask how our contemporary predicament might be illuminated by Danny Boyle's zombie film, 28 Days Later. |
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Keywords: | liberation theology zombies teratology Gustavo Gutiérrez late capitalism culture industry |
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