The Dead That Don't Stay Dead (Paperback)

Langue : anglais

Edité par Nbm House, 2026

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Paperback. Death is supposed to end something.The body stops. The person disappears. The relationship closes. The dead become memory, ancestor, name-or nothing at all.Yet across every culture and era, the dead refuse to stay dead.From the restless corpses of medieval Europe to the aristocratic vampire, the mindless zombie horde, the preserved mummy, the sacred relic, the lingering ghost, the deliberate lich, and the newest figure of all-the digital replica trained on a life's data that still answers in a familiar voice-this book traces the long, unsettling history of unfinished death.Calder Ash shows that the undead are not primarily monsters of horror. They are cultural diagnostics. They appear whenever biological death fails to produce the social, psychological, relational, or symbolic endings a society requires. A corpse that walks signals unfinished business. A vampire that feeds reveals appetite that outlives the body. A zombie that shambles exposes the terror of biology without personhood. A ghost externalizes memory and guilt. A digital model that says "I remember" forces ancient questions of identity into the age of artificial intelligence.Moving across folklore, religion, medicine, literature, film, philosophy, and emerging technology, The Dead That Don't Stay Dead maps a spectrum of persistence: residual bodies, residual subjectivities, residual institutions, residual empires, and residual patterns running in code. It asks what we actually want from immortality, why endless life so often appears as a curse, and how cultures have always negotiated the remainder that death leaves behind.The dead have never simply vanished. Language survives speakers. Institutions survive founders. Photographs survive faces. And now models survive minds. This book is a cultural history of that refusal-and of the newest, most intimate forms it is taking.A rigorous, wide-ranging, and deeply original inquiry into why the boundary between the living and the dead has never been as clean as we pretend. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titre
The Dead That Don't Stay Dead (Paperback)
Auteur
Calder Ash
Éditeur
Nbm House
Année de publication
2026
État de l'article
new
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9798237598155

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