Mark Dery lecture on the zombie apocalypse

In this blood-splattered multimedia lecture, "Waiting for the Zombie Apoclaypse," cultural critic Mark Dery makes sense of the American madhouse early in the 21st century. Using pop culture as his prism, Dery looks at the deeper meanings of the walking dead, and considers the many ways in which visions of the Zombie Apocalypse put a rotting face on our fears of societal collapse--and, in some quarters, our fantasies of hitting the re-set button on America and starting over, on another wild frontier, where the federal government is a fading memory, "the public" has given way to "the mob," and social Darwinism is the order of the day.