...Sarah Juliet Lauro; Karen Embry © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 A Zombie Manifesto: The Nonhuman Condition in the Era of Advanced Capitalism Sarah Juliet Lauro and Karen Embry The zombie has been one of the most prevalent monsters...

... into a prisonhouse state of containment, con- trol, infiltration, simulation, zombification. For Pynchon, being “born again” transmutes into more ominous formations of goth zombies returning from the tomb, mutated citizens becoming the apolitical living dead: like the surf saxophonist junkie for the Boards...

... and on the representation of reproductive technology in women’s poetry. Currently, she is writing a dissertation on zombies, tentatively titled “Viral Signs: Contagion and Con- tamination in the Zombie Mythos.” Mark Mazower teaches history at Columbia University. He is the author of several books on the Balkans...

... into two” was a classical Chinese phrase, trailing a spectral past, and its own zombie quality amused him. Perhaps the phrase was so mundane it did not occur to him to smile. 17. Tani Barlow, “Advertising Ephemera and the Angel of History,” positions: asia critique 20, no. 1 (2012): 111–58...

..., and more on-screen­ zombie worship (literally, a by-product­ meme)? Rather, it turns against the “human,” as defined by the latter’s on-­screen representa- 248 boundary 2 / February 2017 tives: like geological processes indifferent to human projects, pathos, and self-­aggrandizements, which...

... that, as far as academic discourse is concerned, the only good philosopher is a dead one. Nowadays, this includes the zombie category of the “living dead.” The privilege of the dead philosopher is to resurrect the question that every stu- dent asks at least once in his or her life: What is studying...

..., and constrained vitality that renders us closer to the zombie, taxonomi- cally speaking, than Rilke’s or Blake’s tiger.)14 Ultimately, however, this is indeed creates the subject as we know her today, via a series of interlocking and horizon- tally repressive mechanisms. See especially Michel...

... the undead of zombie fiction, biological essential- ism has returned in the twenty-first­ century with renewed vigor and simi- larly appalling consequences. This revitalized biodeterminism has acquired new legitimacy through recourse to genetics and other developments in the scientific understanding...

..., with a keyboard, I write much faster than with the pen, and I can write without thinking so much. In fact, I´m flying as a write. I´ve gotten fast from entering client data into the system and making delivery notes. At home tonight, I keep typing. Here we are, both of us kind of like zombies, each one...

... language, resembled “an undead zombie or a filthy ghost” that posed a major obstacle to Marxist translation.17 Against this inaccessible language that offered fake, petit bourgeois representations of reality, Qu proposed cultivating a “common” written language—common in the sense of “common as dirt...

...). While farm labor is deemed appropriate for former slaves, military service is not, as ‘‘animated bravura’’ and ‘‘a contempt for death’’ (like the zombie?) combine to make them useless if not dangerous soldiers (119). France’s official party line may now be to ‘‘professconfidence in the loy- alty...

...-­ century horror fiction, or, rather, that it was an unlooked-­for recombination of neoclassicism and its Gothic opposite, abstraction made eerie, Palladi- anism with the lights turned out: Joseph Conrad’s ghost ships and vam- pire derelicts, T. S. Eliot’s bridge-­crossing zombie-­shades, not to mention...

... on the genre of the “casual game,” meant to be played in a single sitting, it achieves a focused sociopolitical inter- vention that is missing from popular farming- themed casual games such as FarmVille (2009) or Zombie Farm (2010)—both of which use leveling up and social media to promote grinding...

... happily recovered by scholarship. . . . Such rare knowledge does not lie idle; it is put into the mouth of Swift s ghost, which then responds as obediently as a zombie, easily clarifying the unholy mysteries of the human condi- tion that the living man risked his very sanity to think on. (85 86) Rather...

... protruding from the grave (112). It is around that zombie movie freeze- frame that the rest of Dixon s book will now organize itself. Pontiac s Rebellion was a war full of bizarre tales, the historian/crypt keeper tells us in the language of the pulps, a hor- rifying holy war on the Indian side...