Crumbling, shambling, moaning, driven only by the never-ending search for more brains to consume, the zombie has become the cultural mascot of the early 21st century.
A typing cockroach: a thinly veiled analogy for the people that filled the columns of the newspapers of modernity.
Darren Wershler (aka Darren Wershler-Henry) is the Concordia University Research Chair in Media and Contemporary Literature (Tier 2). He works with the Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) group, and is also part of the faculty at the CFC Media Lab TELUS Interactive Art & Entertainment Program. Darren is the author or co-author of 12 books, most recently, Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg (U of Toronto Press), and Update (Snare), with Bill Kennedy.
"lenguage is, that we may mis-unda-stend each udda." — Krazy Kat, 1918