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The Convenience Store at the End of the World

October 24, 2018 by Museum Fatigue

If it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, then the post-apocalyptic grocery store is there to help imagine both. Catastrophically emptied of employees with shelves left stocked waiting to be raided by roving bands of survivors—it is common to the mise en scène of the end-of-the-world film genre as a sign of the collapse of the economic relations that define our current globalized-capitalist-market-economic system. Products in the store-at-the-end-of-the-world are left unguarded and free […]

Categories: Consumption, End of Times, Retail • Tags: consumption, post-apocalyptic, smart store, surveillance, the eerie

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Post-Apocalyptic Déjà Vu in Gary, Indiana

July 22, 2013 by Museum Fatigue

During our drive through Gary, Indiana we pulled over in front of the dilapidated and boarded up remains of what had once been a supermarket. Standing in the fractured, concrete-and-weed parking lot, facing the building, with its faded paint and busted-out window frames, the strongest sense of déjà vu hit me. I had been there before. I knew what the inside of the store looked like with its dark rows of rusted, toppled shelves and trash-covered floors. When I was thirsty, hadn’t […]

Categories: End of Times, Games, Memory, Urban, Zombie • Tags: deja vu, Fallout 3, Gary Indiana, post-apocalyptic, post-industrial, rust belt, Super-Duper Mart

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