Was ist es denn mit den Gehirnen? Warum schmecken sie so gut?

I present to you the zombie modernism concept of a friend of mine:

Well, as I'm sure you know, the advent of post-modernism as such is coeval with the advent of zombies.
But as we all know post-modernism is a retread of modernism is a retread of Romanticism.
So why not rewrite classic works of modernism (or even Romanticism) in which key figures are zombies?

(I thought the argument would be that post-modernism is zombie modernism is zombie romanticism, but evidently not.)  He gives examples: "For instance: "Stately, bold [sic] Buck Mulligan... BRAINS!" That could be Ulysses.  Benn's "Gehirne" could probably stay the same.".  I think it's a great idea!  One could start with Manfred, because, after all, does not Manfred desire to eat BRAINS—namely, his own brains, and the memories they contain?

Comments

[bitchphd]

Everyone knows that Byron was a vampire, not a zombie.

[ben wolfson]

We're talking about Manfred here.

[bitchphd]

What, you've got a problem with the whole identification of author with work thing?

[Jackmormon]

I thought the argument would be that post-modernism is zombie modernism is zombie romanticism

That's what the argument should be.

[Adam Kotsko]

So I guess that when analytic philosophers talk about how you can tell your friends aren't zombies, that's their way of entering into the postmodernism debate.