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Zombified: Real-World Lessons from Fictional Apocalypses
- Narrated by: Athena Aktipis
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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Summary
You watch a horror movie or TV series and think, “Zombies don’t really exist.” But when you consider the broader definition of zombification—the control of one entity by another—then zombies are definitely among us. And, it turns out, they have much to teach us about the world.
Athena Aktipis of Arizona State University is a self-professed apocalypse enthusiast, and as the host of the podcast Zombified, she knows the undead inside and out. With Zombified: Real-World Lessons from Fictional Apocalypses, she’s compiled her research and insights into a fascinating Audible Original that will have you thinking deeper about all those shambling, brain-hungry corpses in pop culture—not to mention our everyday lives.
Drawing on years of research on zombies and zombification, these six lessons offer a fun way to explore and understand the many forces that influence us. You’ll discover how organisms in the natural world, like the jewel wasp, hijack one another for their own ends. You’ll examine cases of social and psychological zombification involving family members and romantic partners. And, of course, you’ll spend plenty of time with fictional zombies—why they fascinate us, how they map onto topics like infectious diseases and disaster preparedness, and what they reveal about our hopes and fears for the future of humanity.
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-12-23
Nice to see a short course
Not a long or detailed course, but it is refreshing to tip a toe into the subject and to listen to it easily on and off over one day..
Only four starts as it is short.. but sometimes that is enough, I would love to see more variety in the length of the Great Courses out put.. and this is a welcome short addition to their range.
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- RichR
- 12-02-24
Meandering
This whole premise of the book is based on the authors definition of zombie - anyone/thing that is partially influenced by someone/thing else....
Such a broad definition isn't useful as it applies to large realms of biology, sociology, psychology, economics, to a name a few. It seems the few topics covered are purely arbitrary.
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