This paper begins with the post-cybernetic subject in Nick Land’s essays ‘Meat’ and ‘Cybergothic’ with specific interest in his invocation of Charles Marlow, the seaman sent to find the central character, Kurtz in Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’. It develops a postcolonial take on the zombie horde, first by returning the gaze onto Conrad/Marlow and exposes the nineteenth century Europeans in the West and Central African littoral as alienated-undead (literally and metaphorically) in the Marxist sense. Following this, it then discusses the parallels between post-cybernetic subjectivity and its alienated predecessors through an analysis of Richard Matheson’s ‘I Am Legend’. Finally, it closes by commenting on the inevitability of the zombie/zombification as a metaphor for contemporary subjectivity in the wake of the subject sacrificing its intelligence for the cognitive expansion of the machinic.