The War Against Humanity
A war has been raging for decades. It is a war affecting or involving nearly anyone. As such, it could very well be the first real βworldβ war, not in the least because this war also decides the future of this world and everything that lives on it. There are relatively few βsoldiersβ fighting this war, however, and certainly on our side. Almost all of the violence β and certainly all of the structural violence β is inflicted upon us by the enemy. That enemy is waging a war against humanity. The enemy goes by many different names: the βsuper-richβ,...
You Are a Zombie
For reasons that are somewhat mysterious to me, zombie movies remain fairly popular. There has been a notable change in the genre, however. A few decades ago, zombie movies were probably best classified as a sub-genre of horror, while nowadays they seem to be a variety of disaster movie β particularly, a variety of end-of-the-world disaster movie. Picking up on this subtle, but telling genre shift, Brad Evans and Henry Giroux write in Disposable Futures, a book on the role of (depictions of) violence in contemporary society, that the zombie figure βspeaks to a future in which survival fully colonizes...