They communicate their incommunicability. Crucially, they do the opposite: they transmit their own vacuity. They don’t transmit gists of conversation. ![]() 3.1 The First Symbol: The Semiosis of the ZombieĢ They aren’t mute or reticent. As a symbol of the loss of meaning, the zombie embodies a plethora of vacancies, empty placeholders for the building blocks of meaning. ![]() ![]() ![]() Motivation is not all that the zombie lacks. 1 Following Christopher Moreman, we note that while there has been much academic discussion of zombie movies, there has been little examination of the zombie itself, prompting us to “analyze the zombie as a symbol in itself” (Moreman 2010: 264).
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