Possessor — (2020)

The performance of identity in a digitized, gig-economy world.

Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor utilizes the tropes of body horror and cyberpunk to argue that late-stage corporate capitalism inevitably leads to the total commodification and destruction of the human self, rendering individual identity an obsolete illusion. Key Themes: Somatic wholeness and its violation via technology. Possessor (2020)

The Ghost in the Borrowed Shell: Corporate Parasitism and the Dissolution of Identity in Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor . The performance of identity in a digitized, gig-economy