Zombies

Issue 7.4 Previous Issues

Neoliberal Breakdowns: the Biopolitics of the Monstrous

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” suggested George Santayana in 1905. A century of cyclically returning violence later, it is time to re-phrase this question: what if those who cannot imagine the future are condemned to repeat the past?

Issue 4.1 Previous Issues

Reconsidering Quarantine in Invasion Narratives

Jacob Murphy February 27, 2015 No Comments contemporary literature Epidemic fiction globalisation Invasion literature Max Brooks Medical Fiction Quarantine science fiction Zombies

The academic and public interest in supernatural invasion narratives has increased exponentially in the 20th and 21st centuries. According to Terrence Rafferty of The New York Times, the fascination with the zombie apocalypse …