John Sears | January 30, 2011
We previously dealt with the work of one Daniel Drezner, a foreign policy analyst, professor of international politics at Tufts University’s Fletcher School and hater of Zombies, here on the ZRC blog when he penned a piece on Zombies and international relations for Foreign Policy magazine: A singular lack of empathy and research into the [...]
John Sears | December 21, 2010
Well, not quite. If you read the article, what they’re really talking about, yet again, isn’t Zombies, or a religious component to Zombiism, or even the spiritual beliefs or lack thereof of the Zombie Community. Rather, here again, it’s Zombies as a symbol. In this case, a symbol of spiritual emptiness: Murphy, the author of [...]
John Sears | December 9, 2010
I know this is starting to resemble beating a dead horse (which would be cruel, and if the horse was Zombified, actively against our mandate) but could we please, PLEASE stop using the word ‘Zombie’ to signify anything with which a writer actively disagrees and wishes would disappear? Examples abound: Academics have also begun to [...]