Cheap Apocalypse

<p><em>Cheap Apocalypse</em> 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, <em>Cheap Apocalypse</em> 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.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Year

2024

Author dc:creator

• Barber, Samuel Rafael

Contributors dc:contributor

• Joanna Howard
• Chad Leahy
• Kristy Ulibarri
• Patrick Cottrell

• Speculative fiction
• Climate change
• Arts and Humanities
• Creative Writing
• Fiction

Statement dc:rights

• <p>Copyright is held by the author. Permanently suppressed.</p>

Language dc:language

English (eng)

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/2381

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.du.edu:etd-3370