Biothanatophilia: a speculative disquisition on the very notion and practice of literary collaboration

The world in which we live is an obscene and demonic cocktail of matter in which the living and the dead commingle promiscuously. As such, irs no surprise that the popular culture of our time seethes with images of zombies, angels, aliens, spectres, vampires, undead of all kinds, or that there's a global frenzy to recover, memorialise and publicise even the most negligible events.