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Elysium / Zardoz / The Dome as capitalist enclosure

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Žižek endorses Sloterdijk's thesis that global capitalism is an enclosure (cupola/globe) by pointing to films that knew this long before theory: Boorman's Zardoz (elite inside, primitives outside), Elysium, and the TV series Under the Dome all figure the fundamental dystopian metaphor of sealed capitalist space.

As told 2

“Who knew this for a long time... the good old one John Boorman directed it with Sean Connery... Zardoz. Where you know the elite lives within and then primitives outside.”
37:05 The Vicious Cycle of Capitalist Reproduction2013-11-25 · 1:52:03
“So it's either Elysium or global cooperation, if you ask me.”
50:58 Slavoj Zizek: COVID, Tech Billionaires, Racism, and So On — 2021 Interview2021-01-16 · 1:22:13

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses
class struggle ×1 Elysium vs global cooperation ×1 capitalism is Real ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by
Julien Gracq1Alessandro Russo1Arielle Valsaint1Antonio Negri / Michael Hardt1Paul Fussell1Bülent Somay1Damien Hirst1Hanan Ashrawi1
alongside works
The World's Interior of Capital (Im Innenraum des Kapitals)1Westerns (book by Pippin)1Under the Dome1S.O.S.1Le Rivage des Syrtes (The Opposing Shore)1Haiti constitution1We Need a Socialist Reset, Not a Corporate 'Great Reset' (Jacobin article)1The Great War and Modern Memory1

Every retelling 2

37:05 The Vicious Cycle of Capitalist Reproduction2013-11-25 · 1:52:03
Žižek endorses Sloterdijk's thesis that global capitalism is an enclosure (cupola/globe) by pointing to films that knew this long before theory: Boorman's Zardoz (elite inside, primitives outside), Elysium, and the TV series Under the Dome all figure the fundamental dystopian metaphor of sealed capitalist space., illustrating global capitalism as enclosure,productive paradigm critique
50:58 Slavoj Zizek: COVID, Tech Billionaires, Racism, and So On — 2021 Interview2021-01-16 · 1:22:13
The choice is figured by two films: Zardoz and Elysium (with Matt Damon), where the elite lives apart. Either Elysium-style elite escape or genuine global cooperation, no third way., illustrating global cooperation,class struggle