In a late capitalist word that no longer offers any alternatives, the zombie genre has offered potent tools to critique a system that is both unsustainable and – ultimately – apocalyptic. Dan Hassler-Forest will suggest that critical posthumanism offers a way out of the deadlock between capitalism and the apocalyptic imaginary and Julia Dane will argue that The Walking Dead forces the audience to contemplate new frameworks of social value and the moral choices that might be made in an apocalyptic world.

In collaboration with the Centre for Cultural Studies Research at the University of East London.