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      Serial killing and the postmodern self

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      Date
      2006-08
      Author
      King, Anthony
      Date issued
      2006-08
      Journal
      History of the Human Sciences
      Type
      Article
      Language
      en
      Publisher
      SAGE Publications
      Links
      http://hhs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/19/3/109
      http://hhs.sagepub.com/content/vol19/issue3/
      Abstract
      The self has been a consistently central theme in philosophy and the social sciences and, in the last decades of the 20th century, the fragmentation of the modern self has engendered extensive academic commentary. In order to contribute to current discussions about self, it is perhaps most effective to map the transformation of a single representation of the self in contemporary culture. As a cultural ‘flashpoint’, the serial killer could provide an apposite analytical focus. Drawing critically on Mark Seltzer's work on serial killers this article interprets serial killing as a form of commodified transgression. In contrast to the modern self, established through state-institutionalized routines, serial killers establish their identities through ecstatic intercourse. These acts of bodily and ethical transgression are facilitated by the use of commodities. In this way, the serial killer represents a self which is consistent with the colonization of interpersonal relations by multinational capital. The serial killer signifies the appearance of a postmodern self.
      Description
      © 2006 by SAGE Publications
      Citation
      19(3), pp. 109-125
      DOI
      https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695106066544
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10036/69020
      EISSN
      1461-720X
      ISSN
      0952-6951
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      • Sociology, Philosophy & Anthropology

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