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