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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"zombies"”.
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Philosophical Zombies Don't Share Our Epistemic Situation
… (2007) have offered a response, arguing that zombies do share our epistemic situation. In the following paper I aim to show that philosophical-zombies do not share our epistemic situation concerning phenomenal consciousness. I will begin with some background material regarding the general …
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When Trying to Reach Zombies and Other Stories
<p><em>When Trying to Reach Zombies and Other Stories</em> is a collection of nine short stories and a novella that focuses on Christian speculative fiction. The collection uses the themes and images from Christianity and the tools of speculative fiction to tell stories. In “When Trying to Reach …
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Variations on Zombies and Survivor in Simple Polygons
We study the pursuit-evasion game of a zombie and a survivor on point visibility graphs of simple polygons. A zombie has one objective: catch a survivor by occupying the vertex occupied by the survivor. On its turn, a zombie can only move on the first edge of a \textit{geodesic} path to the …
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The Waltzing Dead : The Merit of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
When Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was published in 2009, the parody of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice that now takes place in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, few expected the novel to be more than a joke. However, it instead inspired a phenomenon that wholly consumed …
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SCREENING THE APOCALYPSE: ZOMBIES, VISUAL ART AND THE GROTESQUE IN THE AFTERMATH OF SOCIAL TRAUMA
This project explores the zombie’s status and function as an artistic traumatic grotesque within the 2000s. Coined as a grotesque “stream” by art historian Frances S. Connelly, the traumatic grotesque interrupts established visual norms by presenting contemporary social anxieties in monstrous form. …
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Bringing Zombies Back to Life: An Autoethnographical Exploration of Alienation and Political Dis/Engagement in Emerging Adulthood Within Late-Stage Capitalism
In this thesis, by employing an autoethnographic methodology, I am exploring why certain understandings, or assemblages, of political engagement come to have greater meaning in my life and why other assemblages may be more hidden and thus fail to contribute substantially to the meaning of political …
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Situating language and consciousness
… In Chapter 3 ('There Couldn't Have Been Zombies, but it's a Lucky Coincidence That There Aren't') I pay the debt on their behalf. My explanation proceeds in three steps. First, I observe that there are necessary coincidences, or accidents. Second, I show that traditional epistemological …
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Bridezilla Descends Upon Tokyo and Other Strange Stories
… of horror into literary fiction. Ghosts, zombies, babies with hinged jaws and shark teeth expose themes like identity, motherhood, and relationships that maintain a literary tradition of dedication to character over plot. This collection explores the inner demons that drive the characters' …
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An improved agent-based adaptive protection model for distributed denial of service flooding attack and flash crowd flooding traffic
… adapt and recognize the DDoS attacks (Demons and Zombies) and FC flooding traffics. The agent is equipped with three analysis functions that operate on three parameters of normal traffic intensity, traffic attack behavior, and IP address history log. The agent accordingly reacts on each of these …
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Subversive Liminality and Ideological Warfare: The Zombie Mash-Up as Resistance to Hypermasculine Revenge Narratives Post-9/11
… post-9/11. Second, I use Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009) to look at the effects of revenge culture and how non-emphasized femininity and hegemonic (hyper)masculinity co-construct each other. </p>
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Essence Apparatus
… short story collection Essence Apparatus feature zombies in Finland; an animalistic metamorphosis on the archipelago of Svalbard; the Chernobyl accident; humans living on Mars returning to their origins on Earth, but also interpersonal relationships between a daughter and her father, two sisters, …
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FantasticPerú. Proyecto de emprendimiento
… cambió; Los futuros distópicos están plagados de zombies, el lore de los comics es la nueva cultura pop, las franquicias cinematográficas se llenan de efectos especiales, las convenciones de fans son peregrinajes masivos, los entusiastas de las diferentes sagas han cambiado la introversión por la …
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Analysis in mind
… Chalmers' from the conceivability of so-called zombies to the conclusion that A Posteriori Physicalism is false. I argue that this argument fails to provide compelling reasons for rejecting A Posteriori Physicalism. I argue, first, that it misconstrues the relation between conceivability and …
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Zombie Economics: Violence and Economics in three first-person shooter zombie-themed video games.
… video games: Left4Dead, Call of Duty: Zombies, and Killing Floor. The relationship between violence and economics presented in the in-game actions is analyzed to demonstrate that when capitalism is seen as ideological in nature, the zombie-themed games observed can be seen as evidence …
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Stygiophobia and Other Fears of Death and Loneliness: Collected Fiction
… together by either the threat of death (from zombies, the afterlife, and car accidents) or loneliness (from infidelity, rejection, and moving away), and that both of these concepts embody a sort of "hell" for the stories' characters. I feel that each story highlights my achievements in …
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The Problem of Evil as the Problem of Pain
… of theism with both epiphenomenalism and zombies-informed dualism. In the third chapter I begin with a discussion of mental supervenience in order to defend a commonsense modal intuition necessary for the success of my argument. I then proceed to address possible objections, including most …
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The Evolution of Mashup Literature: Identifying the Genre through Jane Austen’s Novels
… of its application. By stepping away from the Zombies¬-centric definition of mashup literature and instead viewing it according to the parameters of the mashup movement as a whole, this thesis seeks to provide a more complete understanding of what a mashup novel is, and the value and analysis …
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The Uncanny Valley Effect
… why some entities such as dolls, mannequins and zombies may appear unsettling. The aim of this thesis was to move beyond an anecdotal explanation to understand more about the perception of near-human faces, and how this compares to the perception of human and non-human faces. The aims were to …
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Closed quasigeodesics, escaping from polygons, and conflict-free graph coloring
… results for related problems with multiple zombies and/or humans. Conflict-free graph coloring. A conflict-free k-coloring of a graph assigns one of k different colors to some of the vertices such that, for every vertex v, there is a color that is assigned to exactly one vertex among v and …
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