Monday
Aug302010
Why Zombies. Seriously.
What can Zombie culture teach us about our culture?
This is a structured question. This question is asked here as a post on my "serious" website and blog, as formal question-post on Tumblr, and reblogged on the bulging #ZombieDoom group blog im [dot] ZOMBIE [dot] im.Look beyond the films, the books, the cult status, and the gore. To Zombie aficionados these things are simple trappings draped on top of a larger metaphor.
The Living Dead are an undead, unstoppable, unending rotting wave of formerly-human malevolent parasites.
But pause to consider our The Undead in fiction and culture must have more metaphorical value than simple, passive entertainment.
Zombies - and the inevitable zombie apocalypse - represent the anti-passive paranoid fantasy of information-saturated hyper-connected media dwellers.
My questions are:
Why?
Why the zombie as a device to relate our deep fear and anxiety? Why the mob and mass of creature that resemble us as much as they represent our demise?
Why Us? Why Now? Why Zombies?
And: What's next?
What can Zombie culture teach us about our culture?
Answer Question
Undead Links:
The University of Alabama iTunes U Zombie lecture series
#ZombieDoom Game and Story Blog
im [dot] ZOMBIE [dot] im group blog
Thanks.
- DHP
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Culture | tagged #ZombieDoom, Tumblr, Undead, Zombie Doom, Zombies, im.zombie.im 
Dan Patterson
