• ‘So shiny, so chrome’: images and ideology of humans, machines, and the Earth in George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road

    Author(s):
    mpesses (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Philosophy
    Subject(s):
    Culture--Study and teaching, Žižek, Slavoj, Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995, Guattari, Félix, 1930-1992
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Cultural studies, Anthropocene, Slavoj Zizek, Deleuze and Guattari, Mobility studies
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6D50FX3H
    Abstract:
    Mad Max: Fury Road has been critiqued for its feminist, masculine, biblical, and environmental themes, but these critiques fail to engage with the connection between humans, machines, and the Earth in Fury Road. Nuclear technology may have produced the apocalyptic wasteland in which the film is set, but machines and industrial technology remain coupled to humanity to the point of symbiosis. Through the images of Fury Road, director George Miller reveals an ideology of ecomobility that demands an assemblage of human and machine. To exist in the wild and desolate spaces of the Earth is to become one with machines. Further, despite the distraction of subjective violence, the film is a critique of the ideological fantasy of modernity’s regime of automobility and its connection to capitalism.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    10.1177/1474474018787308
    Publisher:
    SAGE Publications
    Pub. Date:
    2018-7-11
    Journal:
    cultural geographies
    ISSN:
    1474-4740,1477-0881
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    5 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
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