Abstract
This paper examines the aspects of capital, state, and people that provide content to the form constituting the Korean zombie apocalypse narrative. By doing so, we looked at the political unconscious of the necropolitics inherent in the Korean zombie narrative. First, through “Happy Apocalypse!”, we analyzed the nowness of the Korean zombie apocalypse genre. Second, through “Pale Horse”, we considered that today’s capital that zombificated people’s lives is a necronomy. Third, through “Kingdom” and “Asinjeon”, we analyzed the feature of a necropolis that necros the people’s bodies based on physical politics. Finally, through the previous works, we tried to pay attention to the aspects of the necro-people who resist capital-state governance while creating it. This paper attempted to prove that the Korean zombie apocalypse narrative is the dominant species of Korean popular culture that unconsciously represents the collective fear and hope inherent in the collective form of life of Koreans.
| Translated title of the contribution | The Necropolitics of Korean Zombie Apocalypse Narrative: Focusing on the Representative Modes of the Capital, State and People |
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| Original language | Korean |
| Pages (from-to) | 83-112 |
| Number of pages | 30 |
| Journal | 문학과 영상 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| State | Published - 2022 |