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What is Thana-Capitalism

Encyclopedia of Organizational Knowledge, Administration, and Technology
This represents a new term just coined in this manuscript where death situates as the main commodity of good exchange process and current economic systems. Thana capitalism replaced risk society after 9/11.
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The Role of Technology in Thana-Capitalism
Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje (University of Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3473-1.ch015
Abstract
In the days of Thana-capitalism, death is the main commodity which is produced and disseminated by the media worldwide. As in dark tourism practices, people are interested to gaze the Other´s suffering but in fact, far from being closer to others, it reinforces their happiness not to be touched by death. Since thana-capitalism is based on a social Darwinism where all are struggling against all to survive, others` death endorses an exclusive sign of supremacy for those who are still alive. Metaphorically speaking, life is understood as a thrilling race where only a few selected participants win. In reality shows like Big Brother, or Films like Hunger Games, there is only one winner. The competence of all against all is promoted by a cynic leader who looms from the darkness. This suggests that participants of these games not only are unfamiliar with their real probabilities to fail, in view the fact that they are moved by their own egocentrism but they are unable to cooperate with others to defeat the ruling elite. Is this a continuation of Social Darwinism?
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This signals to a new stage of capitalism where the gazing of Other´s death is the main commodity to exchange. The term was originally coined by Maximiliano E Korstanje in his book The Rise of Thana Capitalism and Tourism .
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A Paradoxical World and the Role of Technology in Thana-Capitalism
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From Religiosity to Traumascape: The Role of Death in Western Cultures
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