Cheap Apocalypse is a novel that explores how free-market capitalism has imperiled diverse ecologies and the future(s) of every living species in the pursuit of profit maximization. Narrated by a discarded television floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch––an enormous amalgamation of garbage which can be seen from space––this novel will expose human consumer culture alongside the experiences of animals, plants, and other entities (both sentient and not). By re-imagining the humanist binary which has long separated humans from the natural world, Cheap Apocalypse will provide attention to the animate and inanimate alike whose fates are at stake with environmental catastrophe. This approach will foreground multispecies perspectives and agencies across narrative points of view which disrupt conventional narratives of ecological collapse that center human life.
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