Cheap Apocalypse
Date of Award
6-15-2024
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Organizational Unit
College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, English and Literary Arts
First Advisor
Joanna Howard
Second Advisor
Chad Leahy
Third Advisor
Kristy Ulibarri
Fourth Advisor
Patrick Cottrell
Keywords
Speculative fiction, Climate change
Abstract
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.
Copyright Date
6-2024
Copyright Statement / License for Reuse
All Rights Reserved.
Publication Statement
Copyright is held by the author. Permanently suppressed.
Rights Holder
Samuel Rafael Barber
Provenance
Received from author
File Format
application/pdf
Language
English (eng)
Extent
313 pgs
File Size
1.2 MB
Recommended Citation
Barber, Samuel Rafael, "Cheap Apocalypse" (2024). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2381.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/2381