consciousnessless

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1. Without consciousness.

   But this rest is not a mere quiescence in a motionless and consciousnessless nirvana—it is a vital union, a royal fellowship, an esctatic blessedness, a magnificent opportunity for service through all eternity.

   1910 September, N. Y. Observer, quotee, edited by E[phraim] Scott, The Presbyterian Record, volume XXXV, number 9, Montreal, Que.: General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 412, column 2

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   Rather than use the zombie to ask what it means to be human or to consume, or to be dead or alive, or to be agentive or automated, “A Zombie Manifesto” asks us to accept that the end of power relations as we know them won’t come through the conscious actions of the multitude (pace Hardt and Negri) but the consciousnessless hunger of the unthinking zombii swarm.

   2011, Shaka McGlotten, “Dead and Live Life: Zombies, Queers, and Online Sociality”, in Stephanie Boluk, Wylie Lenz, editors, Generation Zombie: Essays on the Living Dead in Modern Culture, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, note 5

   Premodern peoples have to be persuaded that what they impute to sapient agency is actually the work of automatic forces: lightning, tides, the moon rising are not the result of gods or demons working their will but just things that happen from consciousnessless natural forces.

   2023, Adam Gopnik, “Driving”, in The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery, London: riverrun, →ISBN