by Nora Naeve
When does life become grievable? When do we regard someone's life as a life that matters? Who is included in our definition of the 'human'? And where is the line between the human and the non-human or the posthuman? In this episode of Beyond Human we try to answer these questions by looking at the movie 'Shaun of the Dead'.
References
Braidotti, Rosi (2019). Posthuman Knowledge. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Butler, Judith (2016). Frames of war: When is life grievable?. Verso Books.
Decker, Lindsey (2016). Transnational Cinemas. British cinema is undead: American horror, British comedy and generic hybridity in Shaun of the Dead.
Wright, Edgar (2004). Shaun of the dead. Available at: https://archive.org/details/shaun-of-the-dead_202210
Music Credits
Intro music by sfxvalley.
The paranormal is real by Leonell Cassio.
Cover picture by Amr Abbas.
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