Undead

Writing about zombies can be a real pill.

I know they're insanely popular these days, so everyone's doing it. I was asked to do it, and in my current position, I can't say no to any potential gig.

Zizek says 'there are two kinds of undead in the world of pop-culture; the vampire and the zombie. The vampire is the upper class undead; aristocratic, refined, well spoken. Whereas the zombie is the working class undead; disheveled, always hungry, and silent.

As someone writing currently, I will say that this dynamic was deliberately true in previous decades. But now, the dead and the undead have no meaning at all...

If you watch any of the new zombie or vampire movies; you'll notice the most important things in them is the stuff. Material goods. Materialism has become the real horror of media and we didn't even notice.

So, writing about zombies, and pretending there is any meaning in the new stories about them can be really depressing...