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Of Zombies (Part I)
Asking the question "What is a zombie?" raises methodological issues which must be addressed before any attempt to answer the question may proceed. For instance, it must be determined what kind of...
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Of Zombies (Part II)
Before using zombies as a metaphor for the dehumanizing treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo, Slavoj Zizek drew attention to a significant but often overlooked characteristic of zombies [1992]:To a...
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Excursis on Deception
The Renaissance theories about eyes and pneuma depend on a natural relation between the eyes and the underlying physical world. For instance, a person could not give someone the evil eye simply by...
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Zombies III
As reported at Slashdot, Archaeology magazine has an online article about evidence of zombie attacks in ancient Egypt, circa 3000 B.C. According to the article, written with a light hand, one...
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Zombies V: I am not a Straussian
The one thing I can't stand about Straussians is that they are always trying to deny that they are Straussians. I recently debated a friend on a private message board in which he tried to deny this...
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Ten Questions for the Candidates
We all want our candidates to answer more questions, but it's hard to figure out what we really want to know from them. Sometimes it seems like we want to gauge their knowledge of world affairs -- and...
View ArticleOf Zombies VI: The Rise and Fall of the Zombie Threat
By way of Boing Boing, the io9 site has created a chart correlating the production of zombie movies with social upheavals in America and the world. The inference one is expected to make is that Zombie...
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