Re: [OPE-L] Bloody Capital and Dead Labour Cultural Studies

[Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Re: [OPE-L] Bloody Capital and Dead Labour Cultural Studie

> >   Marx did not watch
> horror movies.
>
> Marx knew something about the literature on vampires,
> unlike a certain person..  He certainly knew that, according
> to the literature on vampires which he was familiar with, those
> who vampires bite become undead themselves and no longer
> have the capacity to resist.

So because of this implication he should not have implied

that capital is vampirically undead as it appropriates

the sensuous life of the living? What is your point?

And what is wrong with the depiction of horror as that

fictional situation in which the enslaved have

lost the capacity for resistance? Why shouldn't

such a situation be depicted? And there is resistance to

vampires in vampire movies!  In the Wesley Snipes movie

I fell asleep watching in a hotel or a plane, he does kill

the evil empires. He is half vampire, I think. But that's

similar to the proletariat which is both inside and outside

the system. So I really have no idea what you are talking

about. I don't think you have watched vampire movies; have

you?

It seems to me that all you are doing is appropriating Neocleous'

idea in order to diminish it.

Here are plot summaries for Snipes' and Carpenter's movies.

I sorta watched both, but could not get through either. But

I am pretty sure you are wrong.

Plot Summary for
Blade (1998)
When Blade's mother was bitten by a vampire during pregnancy, she did not know that she gave her son a special gift while dying: All the good vampire attributes in combination with the best human skills. Blade grew up to be a vampire hunter for revenge on his mother's death. The vampires, who managed to infiltrate nearly every major organization, need Blade's very special blood to summon La Magra, the blood god, in order to reign over the human cattle, as they call us.

Plot Summary for
Vampires (1998)
The church has long known that vampires exist. However, it is discovered that a group of vampires are searching for a powerful doom for mankind. The Vatican then secretly enlists a team of vampire-hunters, led by Jack Crow, to hunt down and destroy the vampires before they find the crucifix.
Summary written by {jculver@xxxxxxxxxxx}
Since his parents had been killed by vampires in front of his eyes, Jack Crow lives for revenge. As a grown-up, he is a fanatic vampire-hunter who works with a good team in a professional manner. One night, after the successful deletion of a nest, the master vampire Valek successfully deletes his team and the party hookers. As Valek knew Jack's name, Jack knows that the vampires are up to something big. Together with his only living colleague Tony Montoya, Katrina, a hooker who will turn into a vampire soon, and newly assigned unexperienced greenhorn priest Father Adam Guiteau he sets out to find the black cross first. If they fail, vampires can walk in the sun from then on.

rb

> In solidarity, Jerry