Primary source
Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis
Written by John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic · 2017 · grounds John Vervaeke
Overview
An open access study that reads the zombie figure as a diagnosis of cultural alienation: a body without inner life, moving without meaning. The authors use it to describe the loss of the shared frameworks that connect people to each other and to the world.
A full write-up of this book has not been published yet.
Skills drawn from this book
Installable Claude Code skills grounded in this text. Each one teaches a framework the book actually argues for.
/vervaeke:vervaekeChannel VervaekeWork out which of the four kinds of knowing your problem actually lives in, then train what becomes salient rather than trying harder.
/vervaeke:four-kinds-of-knowingThe Four Kinds of KnowingPropositional, procedural, perspectival, participatory. Naming which one a problem lives in explains why the advice you were given does not work.
/vervaeke:relevance-realizationRelevance RealizationYou cannot check every option and no rule tells you which rules to use. What you notice is a trainable process, not a fixed fact about you.
/vervaeke:ecology-of-practicesBuild an Ecology of PracticesEvery practice has a failure mode. Choose a small set that correct each other rather than one technique you hope is sufficient.