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How should we understand the relation between corporate agency, corporate moral agency and corporate moral patienthood? For some time, corporations have been treated as increasingly ontologically and morally sophisticated in the literature. To explore the limits of this treatment, I start off by redeveloping and defending a reductio that historically has been aimed at accounts of corporate agency which entail that corporations count as moral patients. More specifically, I argue that standard agents are due a certain type of moral concern, but corporate agents are not due that type of concern, so they are not agents of, at least, the standard type. Diagnosis: because corporations plausibly lack qualia, they are 'zombie agents' that mimic real agents. This explains why they are neither standard agents nor standard moral patients: they are not standard agents because they lack mental states, and because they lack experiences, they are, at best, morally notable rather than morally respectable. However, I then argue that we nevertheless have instrumental reasons to include them in our moral responsibility practices, both because that is what notability involves and bluffingly, and both when it comes to treating them as moral agents and as moral patients. Hence, we may treat corporations as part of our moral responsibility practices to a limited extent anyway. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on PREZEIS, an internationally acclaimed participatory slum governance program in Recife, Brazil. PREZEIS was implemented in 1987 and emerged out of a strong popular movement that resisted forced evictions of squatter settlements under the military regime (1964–1985). To date, however, its main objectives—upgrading slums and regularizing land rights—have not been achieved, and its executive powers have been dismantled over the years. We argue that this institutionalization of a popular movement gave birth to a "zombie program" that lives off the past and refuses to die. We advance the zombie metaphor through the Lacanian notion of "fetishistic disavowal," of knowing PREZEIS is "dead" but still believing it can be revived through ritualistic, fetishistic activities. We argue that the challenge is to accept its death, opening up the possibility for something truly new to arise. In the conclusion, we also explore how this factors into broader debates on urban post‐politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Doing research on fishery commodities in Portugal led us to an enigma: for a dead fish to be fresco (fresh) it must be alive. This paradox manifests at a popular, commercial, and legal level. It denotes the interruption of the difference between being dead and being alive in the commodity form. In Portugal, we suggest, the commercialization of peixefresco (fresh fish) is based on the production and consumption of edible 'zombis': seafood corpses technologically and symbolically crafted as undead. An open concept, 'edible zombis' is part of an experimental vocabulary that foregrounds the productive agency of undeadness, both biological and commercial, in the seafood economic complex. It relates to the ordinary practice of necromancy in the commodity‐based world. Edible zombis are commodity fetishes that fetishize their producers and consumers, suspending them from the capitalist system in which they live. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study is about the intervention carried out by a group of professionals from the Interdisciplinary Mental Health Team of the Emergencies Department in a public hospital in Buenos Aires City between 2017 and 2019. It arose from the need to respond to a public health problem related to the increasing number of patients living in situations involving homelessness, drug abuse, violent behaviour and criminal background. The multiple facets of this problem made us think about the impossibility of addressing it only in the individual sense of each patient. We were forced to admit that we were facing a problem of a complex, collective, social and institutional order, which the predominant medical model had neither been able to handle nor understand. We sought to include a Jungian approach to this contemporary problem found in large Latin American cities. Amplifying a symbolic base allowed us to understand creatively the complexity of the phenomenon, which could not be read in any manner other than the social and collective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To date, research on the user experience of Virtual Reality (VR) games is sparse even though VR and immersive gaming experiences are emerging as a substantial consumer based within the videogame industry. Using facial electromyography and skin conductance response measurement, the current research presents the first psychophysiological evidence to show that: (1) VR games may heighten affective responses such as fear and arousal; (2) different levels of immersion in various gameplay modes may evoke higher affective responses; and (3) these heightened affective responses significantly correlate with users' experience of enjoyment at the precise onset of the affective response. Due to the second‐by‐second nature of psychophysiological measurement, the study's findings also pinpoint a specific sequence (i.e., entrapment in a dark room) within the gameplay that significantly evoked nearly 2.5‐times higher fear with arousal as well as enjoyment. These findings contribute to the ongoing study of VR in the fields of media psychology, media studies, human‐computer interaction studies, and marketing by demonstrating the strong link between immersion, affective responses, and positive user experience toward a horror VR game and their marketing implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Physical fitness has a long history in the United States. Currently, functional fitness has emerged as a popular, novel method of exercising. Based on years of ethnographic research on a branded version of functional fitness, I argue this form of exercise is an audit system and culture, initiated by the creators of the brand itself, implemented in the gyms, and governed by the participants. This article illustrates that such an exercise regimen is a response to the post‐9/11 world—complete with war on terror, economic insecurity, and border security threats—and provides a window into the necropolitics of elite, white America due to an uncertain, neoliberal future. [fitness, audit culture, race, zombie apocalypse, United States] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scholars argue that consociationalism has become the preferred institutional tool of choice for the international community when seeking an end to civil war. This paper argues that consociationalism is increasingly becoming redundant as an institutional apparatus to end violent conflict linked to intra‐state conflict. Over the last few decades divided societies have been subjected to consociational influence. In many places consociational institutions have long since ceased functioning in a way that is healthy for the body politic, yet somehow consociationalism remains dominant both for policy prescription and in academic thinking. While consociationalism was once understood by institutional designers to be transformative, facilitating a transition to a less sectarian system, the reverse is true. Rather than transformation and change, consociations tend to develop ossified properties rendering them resistant to practically any reform. Summoning the image of the zombie, I note that consociationalism is 'dead but dominant' and has to defend itself through increasingly authoritarian statecraft. Consociationalism is thus neither dead nor alive, but walking dead, listlessly stumbling from one crisis to the next. Each crisis is experienced contingently with the feeling that something could happen – that something could change – very soon, even as routine prevails in the face of an increasingly defensive state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What would it mean to take zombies seriously? Cultural savants have noted the rise of the zombie in American popular culture in the twenty‐first century. And many scholars have found the zombie useful as a lumbering, empty‐headed metaphor that could signify just about anything. The zombie might look like a loved ovne, but their flesh is rotting and their individualism has tragically withered away. Before I came to zombology, I was already fascinated by an American obsession with preventing the decay of the corpse through an exceptional devotion to embalming. I argue that the intersection of the new zombie‐ism, the rapid decline of embalming, and the mass trauma of 9/11 is significant. Playing with zombies along a spectrum from fright to humor allows Americans to work through not a crisis of meaning, but a crisis of being. The cult of individualism no longer needs a perfect biological body. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Increased emphasis on standardization in primary grades can stifle spontaneous literacy play. The authors argue that allowing playful, collaborative, multimodal literacies into primary classrooms and specifically in writers' workshop can expand and enliven the way we see students' literacy strengths. The authors look closely at the unique storytelling processes and final performance of a grades K–1 collaborative storytelling group, the Zombie Boys. This group worked over several weeks during workshop/playshop to produce an original story line rich in special effects, music, synchronized dance, puppets, backdrop, and props design and delivered a meaningful and entertaining play performance. The authors also demonstrate possibilities in expanded, equitable literacy assessment for primary grades by using a multimodal checklist and story line graph to gauge narrative complexity and story shape, tracking the group's minilesson uptake, and describing how peers and teachers received the group's story when performed for feedback. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores zombies in American popular culture. Particular focus is given to media including the book "The Zombie Survival Guide," by Max Brooks, the film "The Night of the Living Dead," by George Romero and the film series "Resident Evil." Additional topics discussed include how this media has resulted in the sale of real "survivalist paraphernalia," movie and television tie-in-merchandise, and fantasies about the zombie apocalypse.

Abstract: Philosophers disagree about whether there could be “zombies”: beings physically identical to normal human people but lacking consciousness. Establishing their possibility would refute physicalism. But it is seldom noted that the popular “constitution view” of human people implies that our bodies actually are zombies. This would contradict several widely held views in the philosophy of mind. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the author's philosophical viewpoint that type-B physicalism is false, even as many philosophers believe that physicalists are committed to the type-A view of physicalism. According to the author, a person's intuitions are shaped by their own psychological restrictions and hence they find the concept of zombies inconceivable.

Previous research on stigma has focused on ascribed personal attributes that are either impossible or difficult to change. Less is known, however, about how people voluntarily join stigmatized groups and manage stigma based on an achieved status. This paper sought to answer this question by focusing on stigma management strategies used by a Humans vs. Zombies ( HvZ) gaming organization in a southeastern university. Data were collected through four months of fieldwork and twelve interviews with HvZ gamers and moderators. Results showed that gamers' decision to join the group reflected their effort to strengthen a sense of moral worth. Furthermore, in order to keep receiving this benefit and minimize potential costs, they used three strategies to manage their stigma based on the voluntary, achieved status: (1) by 'othering' stereotypical members; (2) by challenging the stereotype; and (3) by reappropriating the stigma. As they employed these strategies, gamers drew on social discourses available in the organizational and life course context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks cause havoc by exploiting threats to Internet services. In this paper, we propose E-LDAT, a lightweight extended-entropy metric-based system for both DDoS flooding attack detection and IP (Internet Protocol) traceback. It aims to identify DDoS attacks effectively by measuring the metric difference between legitimate traffic and attack traffic. IP traceback is performed using the metric values for an attack sample detected by the detection scheme. The method uses a generalized entropy metric with packet intensity computation on the sampled network traffic with respect to time. The E-LDAT system has been evaluated using several real-world DDoS datasets and outperforms competing methods when detecting four classes of DDoS flooding attacks, including constant rate, pulsing rate, increasing rate and subgroup attacks. The IP traceback model is also evaluated using NetFlow data in near real-time and performs well in large-scale attack networks with zombies. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Informal learning settings such as museums have been identified as opportunities to enhance students' knowledge and motivation in science and to optimize the connection between science and everyday life. The present study assessed the role of a self-paced science education program (situated in a medical science museum) in enhancing students' program-related content knowledge, self-efficacy, valuing, and aspirations. The study also investigated whether gains in content knowledge recall and motivation (as relevant to biology, anatomy, health) are associated with reported improvements in beliefs about health practices relevant to everyday life. The program aligned with a well-established tripartite engagement framework conforming to cognitive, behavioral, and emotional engagement principles as well as principles underpinning guided discovery learning. Among a sample of N = 167 (upper) elementary and secondary school students (aged 10-16 years, M = 12.62 years), we found significant gains in content knowledge recall (achievement) and science motivation (self-efficacy, valuing, aspirations) following participation in the science program. Additionally, gains in content knowledge recall and motivation were associated with reported improvements in beliefs about everyday health practices. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 53: 1364-1384, 2016 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Really new products (RNPs) defy classification within existing categories while challenging consumers' prior knowledge and thus are often difficult to fully appreciate. Using analogies to help consumers learn about novel features and benefits is one approach proposed in the new product literature. We examine the impact of revealing more stages of an analogy (access, mapping/transfer, and inference) and the proximity of the base domain of the analogy on evaluations of an RNP. When the base domain is similar to the new product, adding mapping/transfer information leads to more favorable evaluations, while adding the desired inference reduces evaluations. However, when the base domain is distant from the new product, revealing more information on the analogy leads to higher evaluations of RNPs. The enjoyment that arises from solving the analogy mediates the relationship between analogy completeness and product evaluations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this essay, focusing primarily on the cinema of the walking corpse, I provide an overview of zombie studies and suggest potential avenues for sociological inquiry into zombie phenomena. I argue that zombie films, comic books, novels, video games, and the like can be seen as significant cultural objects that reflect and reveal the cultural and material circumstances of their creation. Despite emanating from complex culture-producing institutions and (arguably) capturing extant social anxieties, sociology has remained quiet on zombie phenomena. Issues of significance, history, and definition are discussed. I then locate three avenues of inquiry ideally suited to the sociological toolkit: symptomatic analysis of content, production, and audience response and interaction. I conclude by calling for a multipronged sociological analysis into 'zombie culture.' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the 2008 zombie-shooter video game "Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ" from the video game companies EnjoyUp and Destineer Studios. It comments on how the video game adapts the "Little Red Riding Hood" fairy tale. The author examines depictions of other fairy tale characters, including Gretel and Sleeping Beauty, and addresses themes of innocence, sexuality, and cannibalism in "Little Red Riding Hood." Fairy tales' representations of human fears and desires are also discussed.

The article offers the author's insights on the relationship between cognition and consciousness and the issue of cognitive zombies. It highlights zombies as creatures that seem a conscious subject in behavioral, functional, and physical aspects, except that they have no conscious states. It explores several related concepts, including bifurcationism, unificationism, and intentionality.

The article focuses on the nature of introspection based from the ideas of disjunctive theory. It says that disjunctivists view that real perceptual experiences happening when one perceives them have dissimilarity with perceptual experiences involved in hallucination. It mentions the argument of Sydney Shoemaker who contends the possibility of zombies, who are humans that have states with phenomenal character. It adds that Anton's syndrome is classified as delusion and lacks visual experiences.

The article discusses about the fear from ghosts and zombies in relation to physicalists. It mentions zombies as bodies without minds. It discusses the philosophical reflection on zombies to all forms of physicalism. It also discusses about funny physicalists who should believe in ghosts. It further mentions about the behaviour of priori physicalists, posteriori physicalists and funny physicalists towards ghosts and zombies.

The article presents information on the arguments related to Empirical Physicalism. The book "Zombies and Consciousness," by professor at the department of philosophy at the University of Nottingham, Robert Kirk, a creature in a system acquires and retains information about its environment. He wonders that how people commit to the actual consciousness that has physical and the commitment to conceptually coherent zombie worlds.

Consciousness studies are dogged with religious overtones, and many researchers fight hard against Christian ideas of soul or anything supernatural. This gives many studies on consciousness a particular relevance to religious belief. Many writers assume that, if consciousness can be explained physically, religious belief in a soul—and perhaps religious belief itself—must be false. Theorists of consciousness grapple with questions of materialism and reduction in trying to understand how the physical brain can produce the bizarre sensations that we call ourselves. In this essay I discuss the problems in trying to separate religion from science in such a "fuzzy" area as consciousness. I look at the question of what precisely theories of consciousness are trying to explain. I consider theories from David Chalmers, Daniel Dennett, and Roger Penrose as examples of different approaches. Although all of these are materialistically based, I argue that they do not necessarily demonstrate the nonexistence of a soul and also that religious belief does not necessarily require belief in a nonmaterial soul. I conclude with a discussion of why a physical/materialist explanation of consciousness is desired and how religious bias is still a problem in this scientific/philosophical field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anthropological studies generally interpret discourses about witches and zombies in sub-Saharan Africa as critical commentary on the emergence of new forms of wealth, the commodification of labour, and the crisis of reproduction. Drawing on data collected in the Bushbuckridge area of the South African lowveld, I point to the limitations of these arguments and suggest that we can more fully capture the diverse and contradictory meanings of witches and zombies by separating discourses from actual accusations and from subjective realities. Whilst generic discourses highlight the use of zombies as a means of accumulating wealth, those accused of witchcraft are nearly always subordinate and impoverished persons who allegedly keep zombies as a means of survival. At the same time, these beliefs are connected to powerful psychological motivations, such as emotionally overwhelming experiences of bereavement, loss, and mourning. I suggest that witches and zombies derive their broad appeal from indeterminacy that defies interpretive control and constantly allows for alternative interpretations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the philosophical significance of John Perry's book, "Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness." Meeting of the philosophy of mind and logical theory; Arguments in favor of some form of property dualism; David Chalmers' "Zombie Argument"; Frank Jackson's "Knowledge Argument"; Saul A. Kripke's "Modal Argument."

Reports that John Perry's book, "Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness," sets to dispel three main objections against mind-body materialism. Possibility of zombies; Knowledge argument made famous by Frank Jackson; Modal objections due principally to Saul A. Kripke and David Chalmers.

Focuses on philosopher John Perry's responses to the three main anti-physicalist arguments he discusses. Zombie argument, focusing on imagination; Knowledge argument, focusing on indexicality; Modal argument, focusing on intensions.

Argues that the Zombie Argument, the Knowledge Argument and Modal Argument do not provide people with broadly common-sensical views about consciousness and the mental, and an inclination towards physicalism, any reasons not to be physicalists. Absence of support for the theory of neo-dualism by philosopher David Chalmers and Frank Jackson; Link between knowledge and possibility; False beliefs.

The author comments on Jane Guyer's article regarding the connection between prophecy, macroeconomics, and evangelical time. He infers that the mathematicization of economic value is the condition for the possibility of macroeconomics that will depend on the notion of the infinite series and convergence to a limit. He believes that classical economics was conjoined with biblical tradition at its conception and they coexist within their own intellectual arcs.

The conserved Bub1 kinase was proposed to be non‐essential for the mitotic spindle assembly checkpoint based on recent findings that knocking‐out Bub1 by CRISPR/Cas9 did not impair checkpoint function in human cells. New studies now demonstrate that CRISPR/Cas9 Bub1 knockout cells still express low levels of Bub1 protein and that only removal of this remaining Bub1 pool by RNA interference substantially weakens spindle assembly checkpoint signaling. Two recent studies demonstrate potential pitfalls of inferring cellular functions of near‐essential proteins from "knockout" via CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]