Over 50 million copies of Spencer Johnson’s books are in use worldwide in 47 languages. The book became a publishing phenomenon and a workplace manual. The most famous was Who Moved My Cheese' published in 1998. Without the tendrils of affection or the roots of a past, the subject is left sufficiently destabilized to be tractable to the pressures, dislocations, and anxieties of global capital. left behind a medical career to write short books about life.

The zombie apocalypse thus explains the modern subject to herself, through a mythic depiction of the internal disposition that capital demands from its increasingly deracinated workers. As with the worker-mice of WMMC?, the ZAH must forge a new identity based on flux rather than stability. His works have become cultural touchstones and are available in 40 languages. He has written many New York Times bestsellers, including the worldwide phenomenon Who Moved My Cheese and, with Kenneth Blanchard, The One Minute Manager. I argue that this killing is better seen as a double-murder, directed both against the ties of affection that thwart capital’s circulation, as well as against the bourgeois subject’s past, which capitalism constantly seeks to obliterate from memory. Spencer Johnson, MD, is one of the world's leading authors of inspirational writing. Like the “little people” of WMMC?, the zombie apocalypse hero (ZAH, hereafter) must engage in brutal sacrifices in order to survive: the ZAH must kill their recently-zombified loved-one before (it) can kill or zombify them. What explains the rise of this once-niche horror genre to cultural prominence? Reading The Walking Dead in conjunction with the employee self-help manual Who Moved My Cheese? (WMMC?, hereafter), I argue that the zombie apocalypse genre employs an updated version of the becoming-subject under capitalism. The zombie apocalypse is now such common currency that the American Center for Disease Control has enlisted it, tongue-in-cheek, in its campaigns to raise preparedness for pandemics (presumably of the non-zombie variety).

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