I would like to welcome you to episode 29 of the Symbolic World podcast.

On this episode, I will be playing for you a talk that I gave at Furman University last year.

It is called Zombies, Postmodernism, and Art.

And it looks at subjects that I've talked a bit quite before.

Monsters, the reason why monsters are so prevalent in our culture today.

I talk specifically more about zombies, a little bit about John Verveke's book on zombies,

and finally how all of this development can be seen in the history of art of the 20th,

especially the late 20th century.

And so enjoy.

This is Jonathan Peuge. Welcome to the symbolic world.

So sorry everybody for the delay. I was great. I arrived today at Furman and I saw the campus.

I was able to walk around a little bit before we started and it's very beautiful. I was really happy to discover this place.

So I'm an Orthodox icon carver as you heard. You can see these are my, these are a few examples of my works up there,

but I'm actually not going to talk about my work. I'm not going to talk about icon carving.

I'm actually going to talk mostly about monsters. I'm going to talk about what monsters mean

and how they, let's say, fit in the world.

And I was given the title, I didn't choose the title.

I don't even remember what the title is, but it's like, it's like zombies versus icons,

but is it art and the apocalypse or something.

So yeah, so I am going to talk about art.

I kind of weave that through. Hopefully

everything will come together and make sense. But as an artist and as someone who has been

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