![]() ![]() These beings-who need a designation, and whom we might call the nescient dead (“ND”)-are not zombies, vampires or walking corpses they simply don’t realize that they are dead or exist in a liminal state of repetition caught between what Lacan terms two deaths. 1What does it say about our sense of historical teleology when the subjectivities of an increasing number of emblematic texts and films are predicated on an ignorance of their own deaths? In this article, I try to assess and explicate contemporary cultures’ obsession with the dead who do not know they are dead.
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