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Did Zombie Flash Mobs Help Pave the Way for Occupy Wall Street?
Markoff Chaney | 1 comment | 01/24/12
What does it mean when tons of people take to the streets dressed as the walking dead? With no political or artistic agenda, other than to shuffle around threatening to eat your brains? In this excerpt from the academic essay collection Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human — which was published right around the time Occupy Wall Street got started — Sarah Juliet Lauro argues that the zombie performances are connected to the Situationist movement. See also: Zombies of Immaterial Labor: The Modern Monster and the Death of Death http://www.e-flux.com/journal/zombies-of-immaterial-labor-the-modern-monster-and-the-death-of-death/
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