Abstract

Post-Apocalyptic Visions: Biopolitics, Late Capitalism, and Trauma in Children of Men and Naked City Spleen

Highlights

  • Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men

  • In the case of Children of Men, a British-American co-production with Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón at the helm,2 the film is the disaster/science fiction example at the heart of an informal, perhaps unintended, cinematographic movement that explores the effects of the confluence of migration, alterity, and calamity, as they are tied to the disruption/destruction of personal, communal, and national cosmologies

  • Children of Men is more relevant and timely than ever as it brings to the fore the possible authoritarian outcomes of fearing displaced, migrant, and refugee bodies

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TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World Title Post-Apocalyptic Visions: Biopolitics, Late Capitalism, and Trauma in Children of Men and Naked City Spleen Journal TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, 6(2)

Walter Benjamin
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