6/3/2023 0 Comments Severance ling![]() Consider the Emmy nominated, Apple TV show of the same name. This haunting vision of capitalist society – and its intersection with theological concepts – is something I find undeniably current. Through the narrative structure, which flits between Candace’s life post-apocalypse, living under the helm of a religious fanatic and her pre-pandemic life overseeing the manufacturing of Bibles, religious rhetoric – pardon the pun – plagues the novel’s pages. ![]() These aren’t the only ideas that consume the novel. ![]() In this pandemic what they once consumed appears to now consume them – note the maggot-ridden corpse of a character’s fevered father slung in a La-Z-Boy chair, TV remote still in hand. The living become the devouring force, metabolising the excessive trimmings of all that capitalist society has to offer. ![]() Playing on zombie tropes, this narrative defers in the sense that the fevered, who repeat their banal routines in an endless loop, are not the flesh-feasting creatures characteristic of pop-culture. Through the central protagonist, Candace, a second-generation Asian American living in New York, Ma depicts a generation at the mercy of the frivolous excesses of 21st century capitalism. ![]()
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