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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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