tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post1682230524867667582..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: Grey (A Zombie Ecology)Cord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-71994906225119728332014-01-27T21:11:55.896-05:002014-01-27T21:11:55.896-05:00I love the idea of the ecological Z. I don't t...I love the idea of the ecological Z. I don't think that Lauro and Embry develop the ecology of the Z to the extent that you do. The Z subverts the Great Chain of Being and reminds us that we too are food. I will be citing your paper in an article I'm writing. Thank you! Patricia Ferrer-Medina, PhDAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03508997831614157441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-77689529982896161772012-07-29T21:58:29.898-04:002012-07-29T21:58:29.898-04:00My favorite (so far) zombie-as-deliberate-politica...My favorite (so far) zombie-as-deliberate-political-commentary film is <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378661/" rel="nofollow"><i>Les revenants</i></a>, in which the returned recently dead pose a human rights/immigration/labor problem. The dead aren't hungry for brains; they're more like sleepwalkers: undirected, emotionally flat, and no one quite knows what to do with them.medievalkarlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12440542200843836794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-74837687736203785282012-07-29T16:54:27.886-04:002012-07-29T16:54:27.886-04:00I'd place the film in the genre of zombie as s...I'd place the film in the genre of zombie as social commentary with a few others, but Fido (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fido_%28film%29) is probably the best known -- and of course Dawn of the Dead is the trail blazer. I suppose it doesn't matter if personality inheres, in the end: these films are about zombies as transformed into compliant workers or consumers, the antithesis of a true grey ecology.<br /><br />Thanks for the comment!Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-39999447255658171992012-07-28T21:58:51.978-04:002012-07-28T21:58:51.978-04:00I don't know if you have ever run across the B...I don't know if you have ever run across the British comedy <i>Shaun of the Dead</i> but the way your piece as here ends has much to do with the way it ends, with the apocalypse averted and the remaining zombies pacified and found 'useful tasks' in society. In practical terms this seems to mean being enslaved as unpaid labour for menial tasks and I wondered when I saw it what was supposed to be funny, rather than tragic, about that. This film flirts on several occasions with the idea that some remnants of personality may remain in the zombie of a person who has been in the film as a living person too--this especially at the very end, though I won't spoil it in case you see it--and that just makes this more difficult for me. I think that the film-makers were actually trying to find a way to make 'everything OK' but I think they missed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-7112762391697585092012-06-28T16:54:06.858-04:002012-06-28T16:54:06.858-04:00Alan Blum: The Grey Zone of Health and Illness.
Br...Alan Blum: The Grey Zone of Health and Illness.<br />Bristol: Intellect 2011<br /><br />http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4719/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-47928759138306397172012-06-27T15:55:06.232-04:002012-06-27T15:55:06.232-04:00Wow. With its emphasis on grey as a becoming and e...Wow. With its emphasis on grey as a becoming and eventuation, Chris Danta's essay looks excellent. thank you!Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-25733182060133136102012-06-27T15:48:47.542-04:002012-06-27T15:48:47.542-04:00Professor Cohen: Your wonderful essay put me in mi...Professor Cohen: Your wonderful essay put me in mind so much of Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road, which is suffused with grey from the opening page onward. I just found out that there is a new critical collection available on TR and the first essay focuses on the grey in the novel. I thought you might be interested in this so here's a link to the book of essays:<br /> http://continuumliterarystudies.typepad.com/continuum-literary-studie/2012/06/styles-of-extinction-cormac-mccarthys-the-road.htmlUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04037381744745460277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-24294967763721927422012-06-25T05:40:29.871-04:002012-06-25T05:40:29.871-04:00Thank you Michael and Anne! When you write an essa...Thank you Michael and Anne! When you write an essay like this you never know if you are going down some road of your own imagining that no one else cares to follow, or if something actually works as the path meanders. I appreciate your enthusiasm! <br /><br />Grey is such a stony color (as you point out, Ann) -- but I didn't want to leave it to the stones alone.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-19810764515411217262012-06-24T07:22:21.064-04:002012-06-24T07:22:21.064-04:00This is magnificent. As I read, I already hear the...This is magnificent. As I read, I already hear the debates my students and I will be having about agency, food, time, ethics... and I think of the grey of stone (cathedral and cromlech), the grey of those well-worn manuscript folios, the grey of some monastic cloth. Thank you so much.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02067391488336878220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-42491072808035492922012-06-23T18:52:36.259-04:002012-06-23T18:52:36.259-04:00You effortlessly blend in reference to your other ...You effortlessly blend in reference to your other work even as you maintain a thematic richness that is very much on point. (E.g., on grey never forgetting, or failing to remind us, of the violent and violative importance that human communities put on boundaries; of the life of monsters and other marginals beginning to wake and walk in a zone that anthropocentrism writes off as the gloomy and to-be-lamented end. Of this place and color <b>in the middle</b> that defies absolute familiarity, but promises so much connection between disparate persons, places, things.)<br /><br />As usual, your writing demonstrates an ethics as well as poetics of criticism; a theory as well as practice. I’d say more than glowing praise, but I’m unapologetically a fanboy.Michael Sarabiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03364693856262276415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-26269161473757752412012-06-22T16:24:31.173-04:002012-06-22T16:24:31.173-04:00I should point out how much this essay owes to fri...I should point out how much this essay owes to friendship. So many of its observations come from the work and suggestions of friends: Alf Siewers on tree-dwelling, Alan Montroso on twilight vision, Lara Farina on fog ...Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.com