https://emsenn.net/tags/necropolitics/ Recent content in Necropolitics on emsenn.net Hugo en-us Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://emsenn.net/library/domains/humanities/domains/media/texts/describing-the-zombie/ Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://emsenn.net/library/domains/humanities/domains/media/texts/describing-the-zombie/ <h1 id="orientation--from-representation-to-ontology">Orientation — From Representation to Ontology</h1> <p>Critical attention to the zombie has long revolved around its representational elasticity. Within cultural studies the figure is treated as a mirror for historical anxieties: colonial servitude, viral globalization, consumerism, environmental collapse. Yet these readings, while valuable, leave an unasked question at the center of their interpretive field: <strong>what is the zombie such that it can bear so many metaphoric burdens without ceasing to be itself?</strong> The present study answers by describing the *zombie as an ontological form*—a particular configuration of life, death, and relation that recurs whenever vitality is detached from reflexivity.</p>