Persian Diaspora's Walking Dead
The Iranian diaspora has a political zombie problem.
— Rain, Resident Evil (2002)
In modern popular culture, zombies are a beloved category of creatures. They are commonly represented as corpses reanimated by magic, witchcraft, scientific mischief, or technological malfeasance. Experientially and agentially hollowed out, they behave like us in many ways and might even look like us, but they have no interio…
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