Journal:The Multitude
The following is reprinted from fragments of The Toscun, a small Jensenville student paper in early 2005. It covers a lecture by a visiting professor at the time called "Zombie films and the Multitude." There has been extensive fire damage, unfortunately. I have published it out of a sense of irony. -Seamus Dubh
THE TOCSUN
February 27, 2005
Calvin [This is the only author credited - S.D.]
First several paragraphs badly damaged.
...[wi]thout exception. There are, in fact, several instances where the humans have the same interests as the zombies, or zombies as humans. The evil military getting left for dead by the humanistic rebels in the original //Dawn of the Dead//, Bub the Zombie's love for the professor in //Day//, and more recent examples like the final scenes of //28 days later//. The common enemy is always a figure of hierarchy: the military, scien ... racism. Perhaps the most subversive ...
... mutual interest of those who "flee" ... zombies against hierarchy...
... A force of nature, of destabilisation. They are fascinating, human but inhuman. Coexistence is an immediate fact of existence, though the nature of that coexistence is up for grabs. Figures of hierarchy impose a system of discipline upon the Multitude through violence, leading to the Global State of War, where only total surrender to military discipline lends you safety. It should be obvious to all ...
... a human could be a zombie, and a zombie a human? ...
... and he thanked all the local punks for organising the fregan meal. [This was printed in a slightly different font and I believe it to be commentary by Calvin - S.D.]
