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  <about><![CDATA[K. Silem Mohammad is the author of <em>Deer Head Nation</em> (Tougher Disguises, 2003), <em>A Thousand Devils</em> (Combo Books, 2004), and <em>Breathalyzer</em> (Edge Books, 2008).  His poetry has been published in numerous journals and anthologies.  He is co-editor (with Richard Greene) of the essay collections <em>The Undead and Philosophy: Chicken Soup for the Soulless</em> (Open Court, 2006) and <em>Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy: How to Philosophize with a Pair of Pliers and a Blowtorch</em> (Open Court, 2007).  Mohammad edits the poetry journal <em>Abraham Lincoln</em> with Anne Boyer.]]></about>
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    <![CDATA[Though Bram Stoker coined the term, the undead have stalked the human imagination for eons, appearing in the myths and legends of nearly all cultures. The concept of people, or unpeople, interacting with others while devoid of humanity provides a wealth of material for philosophical speculation. Encompassing George Romero's radiation-spawned Living Dead, the infected of <em>28 Days Later,</em> as well as more traditional zombies and vampires, the essays in <em>The Undead and Philosophy</em> ponder questions such as: Is it cool to be undead, or does it totally suck? Is a zombie simply someone with a brain but without a mind? Are some of the people around us undead, and how could we tell? Can the undead be held responsible for what they do? Is it always morally OK to kill the undead? Served up in a witty, entertaining style, these and other provocative questions present philosophical arguments in terms accessible to all readers.]]>
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    <![CDATA[<br/>featuring work by<br/><br/>    David Larsen<br/>    Clark Coolidge<br/>    Rob Halpern<br/>    Franklin Bruno<br/>    Kristen Gallagher<br/>    Mel Nichols<br/>    Jennifer Garcia<br/>    K. Lorraine Graham<br/>    Mike Hauser<br/>    Anton Helgi Jónsson (trans. Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl)<br/>    Elizabeth Bachinsky<br/>    Lanny Quarles<br/>    Daniel Bailey<br/>    Sandra Simonds<br/>    Sharon Mesmer<br/>    James Wagner<br/>    Kendra Grant Malone<br/>    Gary Sullivan<br/><br/>    plus a special poetics panel transcription from The Unknown Flarfist<br/><br/>    and cover art by Shane Allison]]>
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    <![CDATA[Monsters]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;The films of Quentin Tarantino are ripe for philosophical speculation, raising compelling questions about justice and ethics, violence and aggression, the nature of causality, and the flow of time. In this witty collection of articles, no subject is too taboo for the writers to tackle. From an aesthetic meditation on the use of spraying blood in <em>Kill Bill</em> to the conundrum of translation and reference in Vincent and Jules' discussion about French Big Macs in <em>Pulp Fiction,</em> <em>Tarantino and Philosophy</em> shies away from nothing. Is The Bride a heroic figure, even though she&#8217;s motivated solely by revenge? How is Tarantino able to create a coherent story when he jumps between past, future, and present? The philosophers in this book take on those questions and more in essays as provocative as the films themselves. &lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <average_rating>4.36</average_rating>
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    <![CDATA[The Front]]>
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    <![CDATA[Curio: Grotesques &amp; Satires from the Electronic Age]]>
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    <![CDATA[Tired of the same old Can Lit? Had your fill of The Beautiful Poetry? You're not alone. BookThug is pleased to re-present West Coast poet Elizabeth Bachinsky's first full-length collection of poems, <em>Curio: Grotesques and Satires FromThe Electronic Age.</em> In this second edition, with a new introduction by K. Silem Mohammad, you can plunge into a series of poetic games to witness Antonin Artaud climb a beanstalk and eat his lover's foot as his most torrid affair is revealed in letters; fear the Spy Cam's omniscient eye; test your paranoiac tendencies as an alien abductee; watch as The Waste Land and The River Merchant's Wife hit the blender; rejoice in poems without people, poems without authors and poems with no audience. Informed by the writings of the 20th Century's (and even the 21st Century's!) most eclectic authors, Curio is quirky and sly -- an ironic mixture simultaneously engaged with formal innovation and the Retro Avant Garde that heralded the arrival of a brave new poet.]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;Since 1968's <em>Night of the Living Dead</em>, zombie culture has steadily limped and clawed its way into the center of popular culture. Today, zombies and vampires have taken over TV shows, comic books, cartoons, video games, and movies. <em>Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy</em> drags the theories of famous philosophers like Socrates and Descartes into the territory of the undead, exploring questions like: Why do vampires and vegetarians share a similar worldview? Why is understanding zombies the key to health care reform?  And what does &quot;healthy in mind and body&quot; mean for vampires and zombies? Answers to these questions and more await readers brave enough to make this fun, philosophical foray into the undead.&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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