The horror stories about Ebola seem to be proliferating as quickly as the disease itself. International newspapers and even governmental edicts speak of zombies. Here in the US, Twitter is ablaze with conspiracies tying Ebola to infiltrating immigrants. On the airwaves, Laura Ingram and Rush Limbaugh accuse President Obama of deliberately sacrificing US interests to…
Twenty-first century Americans are fascinated with stories featuring bodies that blur the boundaries between self and other. Collectives frighten us. We recoil before the canyons filled with human batteries in The Matrix; we run from the herds of hungry zombies in The Walking Dead, and we shudder before the seas of cloned storm troopers in…
Avidly is very avid about Game of Thrones. This is our second piece anticipating Sunday’s premiere; find the first here. –Eds. What does it matter, to a master, how a slave feels? If you own another person—own them as though they were a thing—it seems that their feelings, this strange proof of humanness, would almost be…