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Soon, Winnie. "Zombification." A Peer-Reviewed Journal About 4, no. 1 (2015): 66–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/aprja.v4i1.116106.

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Spam appears everywhere on the Internet, from downloaded emails to server-based blogs, forums and social media communications. This article explores this notion of the living dead in the context of spam culture. How is spam actively and repetitively produced with different identities? I adopt the term ‘zombie’ to describe spam because, notably, the concept of zombies has been used extensively in popular culture and entertainment, such as films, games and literature to describe the phenomenon of mindless slaves. They are usually situated in an environment that has suffered a viral outbreak with contagious effects. Critiques have compared zombies to dead labour, such as the slavery in Haiti and the labour in the United States: that is, the exploitation of labour through the concept of alienation, from Marx’s theory, and labour practices in global capitalism. Within the context of spam production, as datafied phenomenon, this paper uses the figure of the zombie to describe the computational and network processes of spam automation, which I call ‘zombification’ — alluding to the broader topic of datafication and its consequences. The assumption here is that life once datafied is zombification.

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Davis, W. "Zombification." Science 240, no. 4860 (1988): 1715–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.3381089.

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Booth, William. "In Reply: Zombification." Science 240, no. 4860 (1988): 1716.1–1716. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.240.4860.1716.

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Booth, William. "Response : Zombification." Science 240, no. 4860 (1988): 1716. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.240.4860.1716.a.

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Hassine, Tsila, and Ziv Neeman. "The Zombification of Art History." Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts 11, no. 2 (2019): 28–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.7559/citarj.v11i2.663.

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In the past few years deep-learning AI neural networks have achieved major milestones in artistic image analysis and generation, producing what some refer to as ‘art.’ We reflect critically on some of the artistic shortcomings of a few projects that occupied the spotlight in recent years. We introduce the term ‘Zombie Art’ to describe the generation of new images of dead masters, as well as ‘The AI Reproducibility Test.’ We designate the problems inherent in AI and in its application to art history. In conclusion, we propose new directions for both AI-generated art and art history, in the light of these new powerful AI technologies of artistic image analysis and generation.

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Conway, Steven. "Zombification?: Gamification, motivation, and the user." Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds 6, no. 2 (2014): 129–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jgvw.6.2.129_1.

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Osuka, Koichi. "Zombification of Insects as a Model for Searching the Source of Various Behaviors of Living Organisms." Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics 31, no. 5 (2019): 720–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jrm.2019.p0720.

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The adaptive behavior of living creatures is considered to be generated by interactions between the brain, body, and environment. However, to better understand this essence, it is important to study the minimalistic set of interactions between the brain, body, and environment and to extract the underlying control mechanism. Therefore, in this research, we propose a novel methodology for observing the behavior by stepwise inhibition (zombification) of the upper brain functions of living organisms.* * This article is a translation from the article: K. Osuka, “Source of Various Behaviors of Living Things that Understands from Zombification of Insects,” The 8th Conf. of Transdisciplinary Federation of Science and Technology, D-2-1, 2017 (in Japanese).

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Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino, Joabe Gomes Melo, Maria Franco Medeiros, et al. "Natural Products from Ethnodirected Studies: Revisiting the Ethnobiology of the Zombie Poison." Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2012 (2012): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/202508.

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Wade Davis's study of Haitian “zombification” in the 1980s was a landmark in ethnobiological research. His research was an attempt to trace the origins of reports of “undead” Haitians, focusing on the preparation of the zombification poison. Starting with this influential ethnopharmacological research, this study examines advances in the pharmacology of natural products, focusing especially on those of animal-derived products. Ethnopharmacological, pharmacological, and chemical aspects are considered. We also update information on the animal species that reportedly constitute the zombie poison. Several components of the zombie powder are not unique to Haiti and are used as remedies in traditional medicine worldwide. This paper emphasizes the medicinal potential of products from zootherapy. These biological products are promising sources for the development of new drugs.

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Littlewood, Roland, and Chavannes Douyon. "Clinical findings in three cases of zombification." Lancet 350, no. 9084 (1997): 1094–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(97)04449-8.

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SUGIMOTO, Yasuhiro, Keisuke NANIWA, Hitoshi AONUMA, and Koichi Osuka. "Head injection support system for cricket zombification." Proceedings of JSME annual Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (Robomec) 2019 (2019): 2P2—F01. http://dx.doi.org/10.1299/jsmermd.2019.2p2-f01.

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Papava, V. G. "The Problem of Zombification of the Postcommunist Necroeconomy." Problems of Economic Transition 53, no. 4 (2010): 35–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/pet1061-1991530403.

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Pitts, John. "Korrectional Karaoke: New Labour and the Zombification of Youth Justice." Youth Justice 1, no. 2 (2001): 3–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/147322540100100202.

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Libersat, F., and R. Gal. "Wasp Voodoo Rituals, Venom-Cocktails, and the Zombification of Cockroach Hosts." Integrative and Comparative Biology 54, no. 2 (2014): 129–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icb/icu006.

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Muller, Stephanie Marek. "Zombification, Social Death, and the Slaughterhouse: U.S. Industrial Practices of Livestock Slaughter." American Studies 57, no. 3 (2018): 81–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ams.2018.0048.

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Osęka, Piotr. "From Neutralization to Zombification: Memory Games and Communist Perpetrators in Poland after 1989." Journal of Perpetrator Research 2, no. 1 (2018): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.21039/jpr.2.1.22.

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Linnemann, Travis, Tyler Wall, and Edward Green. "The walking dead and killing state: Zombification and the normalization of police violence." Theoretical Criminology 18, no. 4 (2014): 506–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362480614529455.

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In May 2012, police shot Rudy Eugene, a black man of Haitian decent, dead as he ‘ate the face’ of a homeless man on a deserted Miami causeway. Because of the strange gruesomeness of the attack and other similar violent acts, some in the media declared that a terrifying pandemic—the ‘zombie apocalypse’—had arrived. While this particular case may be yet another instance of mediated panic, we suggest cries of ‘zombies’ and ‘cannibals’ should not be dismissed as simply sensationalistic, irresponsible journalism. Rather, we see this case as a powerful example of the cultural production of a spectral sort of monstrosity that obscures and justifies police violence and state killing. As such, we argue that all of the contemporary ‘zombie talk’, usefully reveals how the logics of security, state violence and punitive disposability are imagined and reproduced as livable parts of late-capitalism.

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Belisle, Natalie L. "Passing Life, Playing Dead: Zombification as Juridical Shapeshifting in Pedro Cabiya’s Malas hierbas." Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 30, no. 1 (2021): 25–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13569325.2021.1876646.

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Benedek, C., and L. Rivier. "Evidence for the presence of tetrodotoxin in a powder used in Haiti for zombification." Toxicon 27, no. 4 (1989): 473–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0041-0101(89)90210-9.

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Duarte, Pablo. "Monetary Policy, Privileges and Economic Development: Ordoliberal Lessons for the EMU." ORDO 2018, no. 69 (2019): 135–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ordo-2019-0010.

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AbstractThe currency and economic reform of West Germany in 1948 created institutional conditions that permitted a rapid postwar recovery. The reforms were based on the idea of privilege-free competition as a means towards a functioning economic order which is acceptable to participants. The crisis-management policies in the EMU after 2009 go in the opposite direction. Based on technocratic arguments, European institutions have granted privileges in form of bailouts. Indirectly, the ECB has granted further privileges through its ultra-loose monetary policy. The expected consequences are less competition, higher concentration of economic and political power, “zombification” of firms and banks as well as lower productivity and output growth. The lesson from West Germany’s reform for the EMU is the importance of privilege-free competition for economic development.

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Gámez, Grace. "The Zombification of Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People: Radical Democracy, Insurgent Citizenship, and Reclaiming Humanity." Journal of Prisoners on Prisons 22, no. 2 (2013): 50–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.18192/jpp.v22i2.5076.

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Dumas, Marc. "Contextualités des lectures théologiques sur la paresse." Dossier 73, no. 3 (2018): 387–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1044567ar.

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Si la liste des huit mauvaises pensées des moines du désert (Évagre) devient vers la fin de l’Antiquité ou au début du Moyen Âge la liste des sept péchés capitaux (pape Grégoire le Grand), les Réformes déplacent le curseur concernant les péchés du pluriel vers le singulier : vers le péché. Les péchés capitaux, dont la paresse, pointent vers un état de rupture relationnelle avec Dieu ou d’aliénation, pour reprendre Paul Tillich dans sa Théologie systématique. Mais les bouleversements engendrés par la modernité n’ont-ils pas contribué à un oubli des péchés capitaux en faveur d’une réappropriation plus séculière de ces thèmes anthropologico-théologiques ? En effet, la « paresse » sous certains de ces accents ne pourrait-elle pas devenir, dans un siècle particulièrement marqué par la vitesse et l’instantanéité, un contrepoids pour garder un équilibre et éviter ainsi une déshumanisation, voire une zombification de notre humanité ?

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Grayson, Hannah. "Room to Manoeuvre: Moving Beyond the Grotesque in Tierno Monénembo's Convivial Space." Irish Journal of French Studies 20, no. 1 (2020): 98–123. http://dx.doi.org/10.7173/164913320830841728.

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This article engages with Achille Mbembe's notion of the grotesque in two novels by Guinean author Tierno Monénembo: Les Crapauds-brousse (Paris: Seuil, 1979) and Les Écailles du ciel (Paris: Seuil, 1986). The article argues that Monénembo's aesthetics of mutedness and instability constitute a double dismantling of the dictator's staged power in these fictional worlds through reducing the presence of the dictator figure and accentuating the evidence of his failures. By drawing our attention to subtlety and insecurity, these novels demonstrate the limitations and failures of a grotesque stylistics of power. At the heart of these limitations is Mbembe's notion of 'mutual zombification', which here is contested by the negotiation of convivial space by those who are ruled. The texts' restraint of the dictator figures signals the inevitability of their decline, caught as they are in continuities of colonial rule that are bound to fail. Instability and decay, alongside silence and absence, constitute an alternative aesthetics that help to reveal the complexities of postcolonial space.

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Góra, Daniel. "Zjawisko firm zombie i jego przyczyny." Ekonomia 25, no. 3 (2019): 9–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/2084-4093.25.3.1.

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The causes of the existence of zombie firms The aim of this paper is to specify and describe the factors that contribute to the prevalence of zombie firms, defined as old, unprofitable, nearly insolvent firms which normally would exit the market. Based on the review of the literature, mostly published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD, the Bank for International Settlements BIS and central banks, we conclude that the main causes of the rise of zombie firms in the last 10–20 years have been loose monetary policy especially after the outbreak of the financial crisis of 2007–2008, weak banking sector, overbanking of economies, government subsidies to enterprises and weaknesses of insolvency law. We consider the zombification of economies as a highly important issue since zombie companies could be lowering the pace of capital formation, productivity and economic growth by raising entry barriers, curbing Schumpeterian creative destruction and misallocating capital.

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Meiping, Yan, and Elena I. Kolesnikova. "A. Block in the artistic world of V. Pelevin." Philological Sciences. Scientific Essays of Higher Education, no. 3 (May 2021): 87–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.20339/phs.3-21.087.

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The article considers the various methods used by V. Pelevin in order to address the legacy of A. Blok. The writer shows that Pelevin quotes and refers to Blok indirectly, through the presence of his mythologemes in the modern mass consciousness. Through quotation, the reader is led into discourses formed in the cultural and informational space from which the imagery and problems of Pelevin’s works are constructed. This analysis of Pelevin’s references to Blok shows how in contemporary collective consciousness the various elements of Blok’s heritage have, for the main part, taken on displaced or reduced meanings. For the first time we note the typological similarity of the writer’s creative strategies with the modernist assimilation of the new media reality. Pelevin’s direct reference to Blok's article “Poetry of Charms and Spells” and its artistic interpretation confirms that Pelevin’s work has a consistent and central educational aim: the exposure of manipulative technologies and deconstructing of “zombification”. This somewhat complicates the conventional view of Pelevin’s work as being a variant of postmodernism, a literary movement usually considered to lack any such positive programme.

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Rao, Munir Ahmed Zia, and Rubeena Zakar. "Perspectives on Race, Gender and Power Differentials in Lived Experiences of Failed Suicide Bombers in Pakistan." Pakistan Journal of Social Research 03, no. 04 (2021): 104–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.52567/pjsr.v3i4.66.

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The study documents lived experiences of failed suicide bombers in Pakistan. It describes the influence and impact of social structures like gender, geography race and ethnicity with reference to their experiencing of suicide bombing. The study also characterizes the power relations in their interactional contexts entailing in unquestioning submission and support to militant organizations. Owing to ideological charged conditions and overwhelming existence of terrorist organisation certain regions and ethnicities in Pakistan exhibit unusual inclination to suicide terrorism. The article also argues the strategic necessity and ideological under pining of feminizing suicide terrorism in Pakistan by terrorist outfits. Feminizing of suicide terrorism in Pakistan is driven by out of strategic and political expediency. Women in Pakistan are enlisted mostly by means of physical and emotional coercion, exploitation of familial ties and patriarchal influences. The lived experiences of the male and female suicide bombers gathered from in-depth interviews and secondary data delineate the factors and process of ‘zombification’. Keywords: Female suicide bombers, Suicide bombing, gender, race and ethnicity, terrorism, power.

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Mohseni, Hossein. "Intensification of Biopolitical Strategies: Governing Bodies’ Treatment of Apocalyptic Zombification in Max Brook’s World War Z." Journal of Literary Studies 37, no. 4 (2021): 67–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02564718.2021.1997165.

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Schlotmann, Olaf, and Frank Eberhardt. "The Costs of Zombification in Europe: Why Austrian Economics Fails and the Empirical Findings for Japan are a Misleading Guide." Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital: Volume 53, Issue 1 53, no. 1 (2020): 17–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3790/ccm.53.1.17.

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Abstract Supporters of the Austrian School of Economics and a number of empirical studies have claimed that the increasing number of “zombie” companies is a supply-side reason for the low growth rates in Europe. Often, these studies cite empirical findings for Japan to justify their claims, and conclude that in order to overcome the stagnation phase, bad investments and thus zombie companies should be eliminated from the production process. However, such creative destruction can only prove beneficial if innovative and highly productive companies replace these zombies under full utilization of resources. We ask whether findings on the zombie problem from empirical studies on Japan can be applied directly to the current European situation. We present facts contradicting the idea that productive companies would not have been able to exploit their growth potential in (southern) Europe, allegedly because they could not have found suitable employees since these were tied up in zombie companies on a massive scale. Even under the false assumption of full employment in Europe, existing empirical work shows that the losses due to zombification are only around 3.6 % of GDP over 10 years. In our calculation, that would be 100 euros per capita and year currently far too little to call for a drastic change in ECB monetary policy towards past long-run average short-term rates. JEL Classification: B25, B53, D24, E22, E24, E52, E32, E52, G23, J24

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Dube, B. "Trajectories of mutual zombification in the praxis of post-colonial faith in South Africa. The need for African decoloniality theology." Acta Theologica 39, no. 1 (2019): 55–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/23099089/actat.v39i1.3.

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Somavilla, Alexandre, Bruno Corrêa Barbosa, Fábio Prezoto, and Marcio Luiz Oliveira. "Infection and behavior manipulation of social wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae) by Ophiocordyceps humbertii in Neotropical forests: new records of wasp-zombification by a fungus." Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 55, no. 1 (2019): 23–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01650521.2019.1691908.

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Santos-Granero, Fernando. "Patrimonialization, Defilement & The Zombification Of Cultural Heritage." Nuevo mundo mundos nuevos, February 13, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/nuevomundo.70152.

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Herok, David J., and Gunther Schnabl. "Europäische Geldpolitik Und Zombiefizierung (European Monetary Policy and Zombification)." SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3193917.

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Gottlieb, Joseph. "Persistence Without Personhood: A New Model." Philosophical Quarterly, July 5, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqab037.

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Abstract I am a person. But am I fundamentally and essentially a person? The animalist says no. So must the phenomenal continuity theorist, or so I’ll argue. Even if, contra animalism, we cannot survive zombification, being a subject of experience is not sufficient for being a person, and phenomenal continuity is not sufficient for our survival as the same person. These observations point the way to a positive account of personhood, and provide further insight into the conditions under which literal survival preserves what matters.

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Fjellman, Anna-Maria, and Aimee Haley. "The plague of privatization: A futures analysis of the zombification of education." Policy Futures in Education, August 18, 2021, 147821032110294. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14782103211029491.

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The article re-imagines the current developments of Swedish education into a possible future. Historically, education was organized and funded by the state; however, reforms towards privatization in the 1990s implemented school choice, private schools and a tax-financed voucher system with the option of turning profits on education. A new judicial decision enforced the withholding of data on private ownership and economic spending in education from the public, as transparency was deemed to damage the competitiveness of private schools. Hence, generating profits and business advantage are prioritized over public interests as the organization and provision of education is progressively shaped by privatization. These changes are what prompted us to consider ‘what if all education was privatized’? The first part of the article reviews important developments in public education towards privatization and introduces our theoretical framework. The second part draws on aspects of speculative fiction in a dystopian scenario of an imagined educational apocalypse. The scenario starts in contemporary times and ends in 2121 where the education system is dominated by a financial conglomerate called Nescience Ltd. In this technologically advanced society, artificial intelligence systems have replaced educational institutions and teachers. Expensive tuition and fees have made people indebted to Nescience while learning is transformed into the manufacturing of alienated labourers. To understand these economic transitions and the position of Nescience as a knowledge provider in the future, we use the concept of ‘zombification’ to theorize the infection of privatization in the educational sector.

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Rosser, Chris, and Grant Testut. "Re-vision, Re-tool, Re-spawn." Atla Summary of Proceedings, November 24, 2021, 333–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.31046/proceedings.2021.2977.

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Gameful design challenges instructors to rethink course design for today’s tech-saturated, pandemic-sequestered situation now that virtual is a crucial mode. We share two recent examples of gamification—curricular and co-curricular—demonstrating how gameful design yields whole-person, transformational learning. First, we describe our co-taught Bible and Classical Literature course, where hero-students journey into the dark, accomplish heroic tasks, earn badges, and engage desire-driven, side-quest learning. Second, we describe “Human Salvo: An Experiment with the Antidote to Zombification,” a virtual, Covid-inspired alternative to weekly in-person chapel offerings. Chapel-as-game responded to our shared experience of Fall 2020, fraught with four anxieties: pandemic/contagion, political tribes, economy, and racial (in)justice (the primary anxieties that characterize zombie genre as well). Examples offer assessable evidence of learning toward specified outcomes. Our aim is to spark creativity among librarians-as-teachers for re-visioning, re-tooling, and (perhaps) re-spawning as game-oriented instructors.

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Rendell, James. "Black (anti)fandom's intersectional politicization of "The Walking Dead" as a transmedia franchise." Transformative Works and Cultures 29 (March 15, 2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2019.1477.

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Despite axiomatic industry and academic discourses of The Walking Dead's (2010–) status as quality TV—linked to its graphic visuals and compelling story lines—strong counterclaims question the text's (mis)representations of race and its propensity for systematically killing off Black male characters. An analysis of African Americans' responses to marginalized Black male characters politicizes the racial milieu of the series against the backdrop of wider racial relationships in the United States. Moreover, The Walking Dead is a successful transmedia franchise, and thus racial discourse shifts and changes, depending on which transmedia texts are being consumed. Thus, Black antifan rhetoric aimed at the spin-off series Fear the Walking Dead (2015–) centers on the zombification of Black men, a metaphor of the mistreatment and othering of young Black men by US police. Comparatively, The Walking Dead video game (TellTale Games, 2012) offers character development for its Black male lead character that fans praise against wider cultural representations in relation to both the franchise's hyperdiegesis and to video games in general. Therefore, Black audiences may read The Walking Dead as both racially reductive and radical. In doing so, aspects of self-identity, such as race, can inform (anti)fan positions through intersectional politics.

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Gartner, Lindsey. "Intersectionality and Empathy in Afrofuturist Feminist Dystopian Narratives." MacEwan University Student eJournal 5, no. 1 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.31542/muse.v5i1.2005.

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 This article analyzes dystopian fiction’s representation, critique, and attempted rectification of oppressive social structures related to violence against women, black motherhood, and (dis)ability. The 1990s novels Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler and Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson represent what dystopian critics call “patriarchy on steroids.”. Drawing on feminist narrative theory and Afrofuturism theory, this article extends the scholarly discussion of feminist elements in both texts by analyzing representations of physical and sexual violence, which critics have largely overlooked, and the intersectional representation of black motherhood. Although Butler and Hopkinson depict violence against women and black motherhood in different ways and use different narrative techniques, both offer amplified reflections of the real-world intersectional and diverse experiences of women. Butler’s and Hopkinson’s young female protagonists challenge the societal oppressions and inequities they face through empathic reasoning: Butler’s Lauren reframes her embodied hyperempathy (dis)ability as a gift, enabling her to found an equitable community amidst violent social collapse, and Hopkinson’s Ti-Jeanne reframes her temporary zombification as an opportunity to empathize with other characters’ trauma, enabling her to defeat the violent gang leader Rudy. Lauren and Ti-Jeanne thereby imagine new positions for themselves and for women in general.

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Shakir, Shanaz. "A Social Zombie: The Performative Nature of Contemporary (British) Zombie Cinema Fandom." Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network 8, no. 5 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.31165/nk.2015.85.396.

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It may be tempting to brush zombies aside as irrelevant, pop cultural ephemera but zombies have followed vampires out, through film and into wider culture, as icon and metaphor. Zombie popular culture, in addition to movies, books, and video games includes individuals routinely donning complex homemade costumes to march in zombie walks and/or engage in role-playing games like Humans vs. Zombies (See companies like Zed events <http://www.zedevents.co.uk> paintballing, or airsofting). There is even a mobile phone application circulating around college and university campuses, that purportedly helps new students get to know each other through role-playing a zombie-themed game of tag (other mobile phone applications include Zombie, Run! which is a combination of pedometer, GPS, scary soundtrack & zombie newscasts to make jogging fun). This is not to mention zombie related merchandise, (for example undead teds <http://www.undeadteds.com> and living dead dolls <http://www.livingdeaddolls.com>) zombie music, (for example, Rob Zombie, White Zombie & Zombina and the Skeletones) and zombie fan-sites (all things zombie <http://allthingszombie.com> and the Zombie Media Database <http://www.zmdb.org>). The ways in which the cinematic spectatorship of the zombie has transformed, extending the spatial, experiential, interactive and phenomenological understanding of horror cinema within the digital context is an interesting one. In particular the relationship between bodies, spaces and technologies provides a philosophical interrogation of contemporary zombie experience. The performance-centric nature of this new zombie fandom can be seen as a new formulation of cinematic immersion and a new notion of interactive play. In this article I examine the ethnographic case study of combat-ops-UK’s airsofting (paintball, without the paint) event - The Hungry Games - in which I performed zombification. I explore how such fan practices enhance the possibilities of cinematic fandom, interrogating the use of new media technologies in enhancing the pleasures (and terrors) that performing as a zombie or zombie-victim add to the cinematic experience. KEY WORDS Horror, Film, Movies, Zombies, Zombie, Dead, Corpse, Living, Walking, British

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