Hoarders, Doomsday Preppers, and the Culture of Apocalypse
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jun 24, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 78
ISBN-13: 9781137469403
Description: "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." -- Publisher's description.