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No. 23 (2025): Economía Creativa (may-october)

Bugonia as Dystopian Propaganda: Yorgos Lanthimos and Psychopolitics

DOI
https://doi.org/10.46840/ec.2026.23.790
Submitted
March 21, 2026
Published
2026-04-29

Abstract

Introduction: This article examines Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2025) as a filmic artifact that configures a critique of neoliberal psychopolitics through conspiratorial paranoia, corporate satire, and comic violence. Methodology: it combines textual sequence analysis, comparison with Dogtooth, and contrast with contemporary anti-cinema through a framework that articulates post-Marxism, critical theory, and ideology critique. Conclusions: the film relocates Lanthimos's early obsessions, isolation, discipline, and captured language, into a transnational and corporate scale, producing an allegory about dystopian propaganda, the desire for authority, and the decomposition of the American imaginary.

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