Abstract
The present article applies post-phenomenological communitarian theories to the AMT TV series The Walking Dead (2010-), with occasional references to the original comic book (Robert Kirkman, 2003-ongoing), and the two webseries (Greg Nicotero, 2011; 2012). According to Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Blanchot, this essay aims to connect the zombie metaphor with communitarian notions. The starting point is the contrast between operative communities that crave for the immanence of a shared communion and substantiate themselves in the essentialist tropes of nation, blood, and/or race, and inoperative communities that reject communal and essential immanence and are characterized by transimmanence, an ontological condition of being related to something or someone other than but also part of ourselves. Aspects like the Blanchotian secret, auto-immunity, selfdestruction, or contagion are central to understanding the link between the zombiemetaphor and communitarian theory. The Walking Dead recreates a communitarian dialogue that proves highly illustrative in communitarian terms.
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