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v. 6, n. 2 (2024)

Religion, Capitalism, and Cannibalism: An analysis of “An Orison of Sonmi-451”

DOI
https://doi.org/10.22456/2596-0911.141603
Soumis
juillet 30, 2024
Publiée
2025-09-23

Résumé

This paper, in the intersection between Philosophy and Literature, aims to analyze the fifth story, “An Orison of Sonmi-451”, from David Mitchell's novel “Cloud Atlas” (2004), concerning Sonmi~451’s life, resistance, and death in Nea So Copros (a dystopian futuristic plutocratic State that is set Korea). To do so, we will briefly present the novel’s narrative structure, emphasizing its significance for the temporal arrangement of its contents, along with insights from other commentators. Afterward, this paper will be divided into three sections: 1. On Religion, 2. On Capitalism, and 3. On Cannibalism. These sections respectively address three types of oppression: (i.) ideological control, imposing subjective chains based on religious discourses; (ii.) labor-related subjugation, involving the systematic extraction of economic productivity and political obedience as an actualization of slavery; and (iii.) corporal domination, in which all fabricants (non-naturally born) are viewed merely as an exploitable product-body, particularly when it comes to biological functions. In conclusion, the hypothesis here defended is that Mitchell describes a full dispositif when it comes to their means of production, surplus extraction, and power relations.

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