Coda: Food, Future, Zombies

Abstract

I wish the reader to know something up front that I think is vital for an appreciation of my involvement in this project: I had never conceived of voice as anything but a human phenomenological problem. And although two-thirds of the essays making up this collection focus on human-based agencies, the volume enjoys the company of three elegantly written meditations on what I am calling a “spirit-voice.” When I was approached to pen an epilogue for the work, I admit that I was concerned that I would have to encounter a notion of voice that did not comport with my own and I would, thus, need to confront my own understanding of the happening of voice—an event that I had thought of as occurring through the human-human relation. I imagined this encounter to be a fearsome problem, but it turns out to be a problem of the very best kind. In this final turn in the volume, I will first relocate voice to the site of my latest obsession—zombies. By doing so I hope to begin a reconceptualization of voice that might be possible in the human-zombie relation; this revision allows me to start the confrontation that I allude to above. Second, the human-zombie relation implicates primal issues discussed in this volume—food crises and the deterioration of the planet. Finally, I want to suggest how the timely essays gathered here provide interpretive tools and interventionist practices necessary for forestalling a zombie apocalypse looming on the horizon due to rapacious eating of each other and our shared Earth. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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