Crimes of the Future

This Is a Picture and Not the World: Movies and a Post‐9/11 America

This article discusses the notion of the death drive as related to global capitalism in Don DeLillo's novel Cosmopolis and David Cronenberg's film adaptation. Cronenberg's elimination of the fantastic elements in the novel and the focus on the dialectical relationship between Eric and Benno, his assassin, enforce a mimetic reading that makes its political message more definite and transforms the sublimation of Eric's death drive as represented in DeLillo's text.

Death Drive and Desire in Cronenberg's Adaptation of DeLillo's Cosmopolis

This paper discusses the relationship between the use of religious iconography related to eroticism by Spanish punk artists, and the gender stereotyping that the appropriation of these symbols aims to destabilize The desire to shock and disturb the audience places these artists in a position where they have to challenge established values, such as religious and identity ones There are many examples of male punk bands that openly rebel against organized religion, but the critique of these bands is direct, whereas women use eroticism to expose the patriarchal strategies of the church, as well as to project an image of themselves that breaks all expectations Religious iconography becomes the tool for the ironic reevaluation and eventual destruction of cultural and gender structures as part of their artistic program

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Cristina Garrigós

Papers

Death Drive and Desire in Cronenberg's Adaptation of DeLillo's Cosmopolis

Warriors and Mystics: Religious Iconography, Eroticism, Blasphemy and Gender in Punk Female Artists