From War to War: Lord of the Flies as the Sociology of Spite
A reading of Golding's Lord of the Flies as an allegory of a biopolitical or postpolitical society that elevates ?security? to the most sacred principle of organization as a permanent state of exception and attempts to combine it with consumerism. It is in this context that spite, an impotent a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2006
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Alternatives
Year: 2006, Volume: 31, Issue: 4, Pages: 431-452 |
| Further subjects: | B
spite
B political infantalization B postpolitical B Security B Exception |
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| Summary: | A reading of Golding's Lord of the Flies as an allegory of a biopolitical or postpolitical society that elevates ?security? to the most sacred principle of organization as a permanent state of exception and attempts to combine it with consumerism. It is in this context that spite, an impotent and self-sacrificial violence, reemerges as a postpolitical strategy. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3150 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Alternatives
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/030437540603100404 |