Alien and the New Enclosures

This article examines how Ridley Scott’s classic science-fiction film Alien (1979) both registers and anticipates the ‘new enclosures’, the series of dispossessions and privatisations that have wracked the globe in the last 40 years. I begin by giving an overview of these enclosures, especially the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harry Warwick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2018-08-01
Series:Open Library of Humanities
Online Access:https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4500/