Zombi/e/s. Zur Einleitung

Rath, Gudrun

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“…It is estimated that asthma affects approximately 300 million people worldwide [2], and its prevalence is steadily increasing [3]. Asthma is caused by complicated risk factors, including genetic variations and environmental factors [4].…”

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“…Asthma is a chronic airway disorder that is characterized by increased airway responsiveness and inflammation [ 1 ]. It is estimated that asthma affects approximately 300 million people worldwide [ 2 ], and its prevalence is steadily increasing [ 3 ]. Asthma is caused by complicated risk factors, including genetic variations and environmental factors [ 4 ].…”

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Early-life gut microbial colonization shapes Th1/Th2 balance in asthma model in BALB/c mice

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BackgroundWe aimed to investigate the effect of early-life diverse microbial exposures on gut microbial colonization in an OVA-induced asthma model in BALB/c mice.MethodsBALB/c mice were divided into 4 groups: A, offsprings were kept in a SPF environment during fetal, lactation, and childhood periods; B, offsprings were kept in the SPF environment during fetal and lactation periods, and kept in the general environment during childhood; C, offsprings were kept in the SPF environment only during fetal period, and then kept in the general environment; and D, offsprings were kept in the general environment during whole periods. The diversity of intestinal flora was analyzed using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis. Mice were sensitized with OVA to establish an animal model of asthma. Then asthma-related inflammatory cytokines and histological analysis were performed.ResultsThe diversity of intestinal microflora in group D was significantly higher than groups A, B and C at three days and three weeks after birth, and the diversity of intestinal microflora in groups C and D were significantly higher than groups A and B at five weeks after birth. The pathologic scores of OVA-induced asthmatic mice in group D were significantly lower than group A, and serum IFN-γ levels and the IFN-γ/IL-4 ratio in group D were significantly higher than group A.ConclusionsExposure to diverse microbial environments in early life affects gut microbial colonization in BALB/c mice. The diversity of the intestinal flora in early life may prevent airway inflammation in asthma via regulating the Th1/Th2 balance.

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“…By forming it into a more fully-fledged concept, the zombie becomes something particularly useful for contemporary thought as it draws together customarily disparate elements in a way other figures associated with disease cannot. To be precise, the zombi is an entity historically formed within Haitian vodou practices as a combination of various factors, some of them originating in West African vodun (Rath, 2014;; Dillon, 2019). It is still articulated for us, Western knowledge makers, through other practices than those it emerged in, and should not be haphazardly conflated.…”

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Pandemics and 'Zombies': How to Think Tropical Imaginaries with Cinematic Cosmologies

Kroulík

2021

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The tropics in occidental imaginaries are typically coded as either edenic paradise or as hell. It is in the latter mode that they come to be linked with zombies, diseases, and questions relating to the autonomy of the human body. In this article I first summarise historical connections between colonialism and the tropics as expressed through dealings with disease set against a background of Christian-secular cosmology. I then further think the issue with two films that approach disease and the tropics through the zombie, which I conceive of as radical heteronomy. One film, Zombi 2, is a Euro-American engagement with the tropics as imagined from a temperate zone and a Christian tradition. The other, Cemetery of Splendor, is a Thai film that engages notions of disease and the autonomy of the human body from within the tropics and a Buddhist imaginary. I tie these questions of disease, ‘zombies’ and the tropics in with more general discussions of cosmologies, including those of the moderns. The displacement of modern ontological certainty (which is imagined through the zombie and conditioned by cultural and ideological imagination) opens a space for engaging the problem of a pandemic with notions of subjectivity and corporeality. An underlying thematic throughout this article is an argument for the importance of the cinema image in dealing with bio/socio/political issues. Here, in this translation of the cinematic world into discourse we are engaged at the intersection of tropics, disease, bodies and heteronomy.

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“…They provide a syntax and grammar, but do not fully determine the message. In the past, zombie films, novels and games therefore treated critical topics as diverse as racism, consumerism and libertarianism (Rath 2014).…”

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"We're not murderers. We just survive."

Pfister¹

2021

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In 2019, Ubisoft lead developer Sébastien Le Prestre said in an interview with Gamespot: "We're creating a game here, we're not trying to make political statements in our games. We've rooted ourselves in reality, and you'll get what you get out of your playthrough -everybody will get something different out of their experience. The story might make you see different situations, but we're not trying to guide anybody or to make any sorts of statements." (Webster 2019) Contrary to such claims from the video game industry, digital games cannot be thought of as operating separately from society and its politics. Games emerge out of society and inevitably carry statements of social and political discourses within them: "The stories we tell reflect our understanding of the world and the society in which we live, even if such tales appear firmly rooted in the fantastic." (Barr 2020: 28) Games play with our hopes and fears. They reproduce -consciously and subconsciously -distinct ideas of the world and convey values whenever they construct ideas of good and evil, for example. In games, we encounter brave warriors and corrupt politicians; we fight for freedom and against oppression. In terms of historical discourse analysis, we can therefore speak of dominant ideological statements that are communicated and constructed.How, then, can we recognize and analyze these dominant statements? Of course, the most obvious way is to spot them in the narrative running through the games: Is there a central conflict? What are the causes of this conflict? Who are the heroes? Who are the enemies? To this end we can take inspiration from media studies, or more generally from the social sciences, where phenomena such 1 Quote from the character Ellie in The Last of Us.

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Zombi/e/s. Zur Einleitung

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Early-life gut microbial colonization shapes Th1/Th2 balance in asthma model in BALB/c mice

Early-life gut microbial colonization shapes Th1/Th2 balance in asthma model in BALB/c mice

Pandemics and 'Zombies': How to Think Tropical Imaginaries with Cinematic Cosmologies

"We're not murderers. We just survive."

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