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Dracula as System: Extraction, Devotion, and the Death of Human Flourishing

Dracula as System: Extraction, Devotion, and the Death of Human Flourishing

Roberts, Zoë

Paperback

PhilosophyLogic

ISBN13: 9798190376418
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 2 2026
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Dracula has long been read as a story of horror, sexuality, disease, invasion, and forbidden desire. But beneath those familiar interpretations lies another architecture: a system built to extract life, create dependency, conceal depletion, and convert devotion into service.

In Dracula as System, Zoë Roberts examines Bram Stoker's novel as more than a battle between civilization and a supernatural predator. Dracula is not merely a monster. He is an organizing force. He enters homes, institutions, bodies, relationships, and networks, feeding through structures that allow his power to travel while disguising the damage he causes. Renfield becomes the model servant of extraction, mistaking proximity to power for personal elevation. Lucy's decline appears mysterious until the system surrounding her becomes visible. Jonathan Harker, Mina Murray, the Demeter, Carfax Abbey, and the hunters themselves all reveal how movement, information, property, loyalty, and dependence can be reorganized around predation.

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