Zombies are everywhere. Ok not (yet) on the streets (so far as I
know); but in our cultural imaginary they are everywhere. You can find
them (in small groups and hordes) in high budget nail biting thriller
movies like Brad Pitt’s World War Z (2013), on television, and
all over print and digital reading material, much of it spoofing both
our literary and political histories (including Zombies in Jane Austen
and Abraham Lincoln).For those of us engaged in probing America’s culture of fear and its highly toxic institutionalizations like mass incarceration and mass deportation, zombies seem to be a potentially important proxy for the demons that haunt contemporary society. But what do they tell us? Actually, I think, quite a lot, and the news is mostly good.
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