If the Twentieth Century waited with dread for the absolute enemy to come down from the most remote depths of space, in the new century the radical threat comes instead from the bowels of the earth. It shows the haunting face of the living dead. Even if zombies did not invade our cities, they have indeed really 'contaminated' our imagination, penetrating almost every interstice of the western culture. The cause of their fortune is not only linked to the climate of the «global war» against terrorism. Probably in this figure there are ‘condensed’ many of the fears that trouble our imagination at the dawn of the third millennium, and above all the fear of catastrophe, that remains perhaps the only way in which the West thinks of its future.

Palano, D., Apocalisse zombie. La metamorfosi della paura nell’immaginario «postpolitico» contemporaneo, <<RIVISTA DI POLITICA>>, 2017; VIII (2): 120-138 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/98485]

Apocalisse zombie. La metamorfosi della paura nell’immaginario «postpolitico» contemporaneo

Palano, Damiano
2017

Abstract

If the Twentieth Century waited with dread for the absolute enemy to come down from the most remote depths of space, in the new century the radical threat comes instead from the bowels of the earth. It shows the haunting face of the living dead. Even if zombies did not invade our cities, they have indeed really 'contaminated' our imagination, penetrating almost every interstice of the western culture. The cause of their fortune is not only linked to the climate of the «global war» against terrorism. Probably in this figure there are ‘condensed’ many of the fears that trouble our imagination at the dawn of the third millennium, and above all the fear of catastrophe, that remains perhaps the only way in which the West thinks of its future.
2017
Italiano
Palano, D., Apocalisse zombie. La metamorfosi della paura nell’immaginario «postpolitico» contemporaneo, <<RIVISTA DI POLITICA>>, 2017; VIII (2): 120-138 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/98485]
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