Hoarders, Doomsday Preppers, and the Culture of Apocalypse

by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

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The culture of twenty-first century America largely revolves around narcissistic death, violence, and visions of doom. As people are bombarded with amoral metanarratives that display an almost complete lack of empathy for others on television, in films, and on the internet, their insatiable appetite for excessive pain and routine death reflects an embrace of an endlessly warring culture. Foster explores this culture of the apocalypse, from hoarding and gluttony to visions of the post-apocalyptic world.
  • ISBN10 1137468084
  • ISBN13 9781137468086
  • Publish Date 25 June 2014 (first published 24 June 2014)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
  • Imprint Palgrave Pivot
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 82
  • Language English