Marx y Vattimo viendo The Walking dead: ¿Por qué a la izquierda le gusta el apocalipsis zombi?

Roberto Herrera Zúñiga

doi:10.5377/realidad.v0i154.10105

No. 154 (2019), Essays

No. 154 (2019)

Marx and Vattimo watching The Walking Dead: Why on the left likes the zombie apocalypse?

Essays

Published 2019-12-30

Roberto Herrera Zúñiga⁺⁻

Roberto Herrera Zúñiga

Universidad de Costa Rica, sede de Occidente

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Keywords

The Walking Dead
Television series
Ideology
Postmodernity
Postapocalypse fiction
Communism
Karl Marx
Gianni Vattimo

Abstract

This essay analyses, from a political philosophy and contemporary social analysis perspective, the reasons by which a series such as The Walking dead has generated so much sympathy and acceptance, not only on the general public but also, and notably, on an unexpected audience for a post-apocalyptic television series: the left’s political militancy.

Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 154, 2019: 89-108

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