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Zombies We Live By. A Greimasian Analysis of Train to Busan [PDF]
OculaZombies are cultural tropes that, as semiotic devices, convey denotative and connotative meanings revealing ethical, political, and sociological aspects of the society that engendered them.
Federico Marcon
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, 2018 Philosophers disagree about whether there could be “zombies”: beings physically identical to normal human people but lacking consciousness. Establishing their possibility would refute physicalism.
Olson, E.T.
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ZOMBIE AS A FLESH OF (POST)CAPITALISM
Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серія Філософія, філософські перипетії, 2020 The article is devoted to the consideration of the image of zombie in two contexts, which are, firstly, the transformation of capitalist figures of production and consumption, and secondly, the transformation of desire and sensuality. Two models of socio-
Olha V. Khrabrova
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Zombies—A Pop Culture Resource for Public Health Awareness
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2013 Sitting at his laboratory bench, a scientist adds mutation after mutation to a strand of rabies virus RNA, unaware that in a few short days, an outbreak of this very mutation would destroy society as we know it.
Melissa Nasiruddin +4 more
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Negative equity companies in Europe: theory and evidence
Business: Theory and Practice, 2016 Businesses in technical bankruptcy are part of the European context, many of them in such financial distress that they have lost all their equity and a very high percentage of them have even incurred negative equity.
Sara Urionabarrenetxea +2 more
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Nous mourrons tous, The Haitian Revolution goes Underground
Karib, 2018 In a lengthy 1967 interview held in Havana with Rene Depestre, Aime Cesaire may have made one of the most unintentionally misleading claims regarding the Haitian revolution when he declared that “the first Negro epic of the New World was written by ...
J. Michael Dash
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Always Already Monsters—BioShock’s (2007) ‘Splicers’ as Computational Others
Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2019 The article explores the manufacturing of monsters in video games, using the case of the influential 2007 first-person shooter BioShock, and ‘splicers’—its most numerous, zombie-like enemies.
Jaroslav Švelch
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Eating the Past: Proto-Zombies in Brazilian Fiction 1900-1955
Alambique, 2018 Taking Oswald de Andrade’s 1928 “Manifesto antropófago” [Cannibalist Manifesto] as a point of departure, this article analyzes how zombies in Brazilian literature from 1900 to 1955 represent a kind of cultural cannibalism, consuming bodies as a way of ...
M. Elizabeth Ginway
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Pretty, Dead: Sociosexuality, Rationality and the Transition into Zom-Being [PDF]
, 2014 The undead have been evoked in philosophical hypotheses regarding consciousness, but such discussions often come across as abstract academic exercises, inapplicable to personal experience.
Jones, Steve
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Shuffling Narratives: Apocalypticism, Postmodernism, and Zombies [PDF]
, 2020 Zombies and the tropes that surround them have become a staple of popular culture and a familiar presence in movies, television series, graphic novels, and video games.
Wöll, Steffen, Steffen Wöll
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