Project Z

A road-trip, detective story and zombie flic, Project Z tracks - behind the scenes and headlines - the most pressing global security challenges of our times.

[Project Z @ProjectZmovie]

Zombie films and zombie-themed national security exercises warned us about new interconnected, global threats like a borderless pandemic. With tragic #COVID19 crisis growing, now is a time to listen. New essay on Project Z @ThePublicSquare - you can watch @bullfrogfilms & @OVIDtv

[Zócalo Public Square @ThePublicSquare]

"Our response is to read the message coded in the coronavirus and zombie film as a warning that must be heeded, irrespective of nation, party, or religion."

—@sydneyciss's James Der Derian and @phillipgara https://t.co/2Hj6QlBH23

[Project Z @ProjectZmovie]

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[Project Z @ProjectZmovie]

@AsyncArt @Coldie because it's alive...

[Project Z @ProjectZmovie]

@AsyncArt @Coldie blueprints 179 https://t.co/OTmfp8yXxb

[Project Z @ProjectZmovie]

Project Z is included in the journal Viral Culture from @DukePress Cultural Politics - with an essay 'Life, Death and the Living Dead in a Time of #COVID19' examining the virus as a complex system gone rogue, capturing the emergent challenges of the 2020s @sydneyciss

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

On the blog today, Mark Featherstone & John Armitage discuss the concept of "viral culture" in the context of the pandemic.

Read the post here: https://t.co/OkqTqm9pQu

Check out their coedited issue of Cultural Politics dedicated to the topic: https://t.co/hA5JoIyoTR

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

On the blog today, Mark Featherstone & John Armitage discuss the concept of "viral culture" in the context of the pandemic.

Read the post here: https://t.co/OkqTqm9pQu

Check out their coedited issue of Cultural Politics dedicated to the topic: https://t.co/hA5JoIyoTR

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

"warlike coordination" leading up to 1/6 https://t.co/hahgWkt3mQ

[William Gibson @GreatDismal]

Potentially, but it’s going to be multi-causal, and far more incremental than we culturally have imagined any apocalypse to be. In a sense, we caused this pandemic to happen, but very gradually.

[Project Z @ProjectZmovie]

From 11/24/16 - now a cautionary tale for the post-trump era - Trump: Tragedy or Farce: "The recent past may weigh on some as dream, and on others as nightmare. But we could yet awaken to even greater surprises than the election of Trump." https://t.co/p0fSUyt8An

[Bellingcat @bellingcat]

Recent rallies in Washington DC have seen formerly disconnected chunks of the right-wing ecosphere network & share ideas.

According to @IwriteOK this convergence has revealed some worrying trends that will likely be visible at the next DC rally on Jan 6 https://t.co/vtmlW9IZWB

[Project Z @ProjectZmovie]

The B-Movie of National Security

[Tom Morello @tmorello]

#ItsFunnyCauseItsTrue

[Project Z @ProjectZmovie]

Like #covid19 National Security was completely unprepared for a predictable and imminent risk. The US government was one event or accident away from becoming significantly incapacitated. This was an enormous security failure, investigation is needed. #capitolseige #insurrection

[Laurie Garrett @Laurie_Garrett]

In coming days there will be many themes hashed out about the events of today, but the Number One must be what is captured in this 2-Americas photo. Who didn't watched today's insurrection and wonder, "How would law enforcers have reacted if these folks were people of color?"

[Project Z @ProjectZmovie]

Welcome to the #Zombie recovery...

[Shawn Donnan @sdonnan]

Welcome to the zombie recovery...

My @BW dispatch from an economy where life is a grind and curtailed ambitions are the order of the day.
https://t.co/dVhu4Cr2xi

[Project Z @ProjectZmovie]

The Firing of Chris Krebs Is What an Attack On Democracy Looks Like https://t.co/Nx2Ezkou8A via @DefenseOne

[Project Z @ProjectZmovie]

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[Zócalo Public Square @ThePublicSquare]

"Both zombies and the virus are the living dead, in the sense that they acquire vitality only after they find and infect a host."

—@ProjectZmovie's James Der Derian and @phillipgara on what zombie films can teach us about COVID: https://t.co/2Hj6QlBH23

[Yaneer Bar-Yam @yaneerbaryam]

The bubble you actually have

@DocJeffD

[The Boston Globe @BostonGlobe]

“We are now in the midst of a national security crisis," said journalist Carl Bernstein after President Trump's announcement that he had tested positive for COVID-19. https://t.co/4Nlr216ZFQ

[The New York Times @nytimes]

President Trump’s announcement that he and the first lady had tested positive for the coronavirus caused global financial markets to plunge.

https://t.co/CzkZQQu8Te

[Project Z @ProjectZmovie]

@maxbrooksauthor Lessons that we should have learned before #covid19 and still need to reckon with https://t.co/p8XbAKEyLD

[Laurie Garrett @Laurie_Garrett]

They're called Zombie Fires -- out-of-control conflagrations burning in the #Arctic. Burning, in permafrost and even ice? Yup. This is #ClimateChange .
https://t.co/nK6T38XA65