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🛒 Consumerist Dystopia

Fictional worlds where buying and branding have consumed every last corner of human experience, serving as dark mirrors of our own commercial excess.
Culture Jam
by Kalle Lasn • 1999
The inside of your head is a billboard. Here is the spray paint.
3.63
2k+
🛒 Consumer Culture🏢 Corporate Power📺 Media Criticism
Culture Jam Summary
Culture Jam 90%
The inside of your head is a billboard. Here is the spray paint.
by Kalle Lasn 1999
3.63
2k+ ratings
🛒 Consumer Culture🏢 Corporate Power📺 Media Criticism
Feed
by M.T. Anderson • 2002
In a world where ads stream directly into minds, a boy meets a girl who resists.
3.55
68k+
🏢 Corporate Satire🧠 Brain Implants💔 Tragic Romance
Feed Summary
Feed 90%
In a world where ads stream directly into minds, a boy meets a girl who resists.
by M.T. Anderson 2002
3.55
68k+ ratings
🏢 Corporate Satire🧠 Brain Implants💔 Tragic Romance
Rebel Sell
by Joseph Heath • 2004
The counterculture's war on consumerism is the consumer economy's greatest weapon.
3.84
2k+
🛒 Consumer Culture🏆 Status Competition🔄 Counterculture Critique
Rebel Sell Summary
Rebel Sell 90%
The counterculture's war on consumerism is the consumer economy's greatest weapon.
by Joseph Heath 2004
3.84
2k+ ratings
🛒 Consumer Culture🏆 Status Competition🔄 Counterculture Critique
The Mandibles
by Lionel Shriver • 2016
The Mandibles waited decades for an inheritance that disappears the night America defaults.
3.71
12k+
🏚️ Economic Collapse💸 Failed Inheritance👁️ Surveillance State
The Mandibles Summary
The Mandibles 90%
The Mandibles waited decades for an inheritance that disappears the night America defaults.
by Lionel Shriver 2016
3.71
12k+ ratings
🏚️ Economic Collapse💸 Failed Inheritance👁️ Surveillance State
Cheaponomics
by Michael S. Carolan • 2014
Every low price hides a bill you are already paying, just not at the register.
3.65
20
💸 Externalized Costs🛒 Consumer Capitalism🏢 Corporate Power
Cheaponomics Summary
Cheaponomics 89%
Every low price hides a bill you are already paying, just not at the register.
by Michael S. Carolan 2014
3.65
20 ratings
💸 Externalized Costs🛒 Consumer Capitalism🏢 Corporate Power
Super Sad True Love Story
by Gary Shteyngart • 2010
A neurotic 39-year-old courts a guarded young woman in an America where everyone is rated.
3.45
42k+
🔮 Near-Future Dystopia🤖 Satirical Sci-Fi💔 Age Gap Relationship
Super Sad True Love Story Summary
Super Sad True Love Story 89%
A neurotic 39-year-old courts a guarded young woman in an America where everyone is rated.
by Gary Shteyngart 2010
3.45
42k+ ratings
🔮 Near-Future Dystopia🤖 Satirical Sci-Fi💔 Age Gap Relationship
Zed
by Joanna Kavenna • 2019
A murder the system failed to predict becomes a crack that brings the surveillance state down.
3.12
1k+
🤖 Algorithmic Dystopia👁️ Predictive Surveillance💾 Hacker Resistance
Zed Summary
Zed 89%
A murder the system failed to predict becomes a crack that brings the surveillance state down.
by Joanna Kavenna 2019
3.12
1k+ ratings
🤖 Algorithmic Dystopia👁️ Predictive Surveillance💾 Hacker Resistance
Acide sulfurique
by Amélie Nothomb • 2005
A student is dragged into a reality-TV death camp where the audience decides who is killed.
3.57
13k+
📺 Dystopian Reality Tv🏷️ Power Of Names🔄 Villain Redemption
Acide sulfurique Summary
Acide sulfurique 89%
A student is dragged into a reality-TV death camp where the audience decides who is killed.
by Amélie Nothomb 2005
3.57
13k+ ratings
📺 Dystopian Reality Tv🏷️ Power Of Names🔄 Villain Redemption
Liquid Life
by Zygmunt Bauman • 2005
Why work, love, and identity became disposable, and why standing still now means sinking.
3.90
2k+
🏛️ Critical Theory💰 Late Capitalism⚠️ Precarity
Liquid Life Summary
Liquid Life 89%
Why work, love, and identity became disposable, and why standing still now means sinking.
by Zygmunt Bauman 2005
3.90
2k+ ratings
🏛️ Critical Theory💰 Late Capitalism⚠️ Precarity
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
by David Wong • 2015
A barista inherits a crime empire and becomes the star of a live murder show.
3.98
24k+
🤖 Cyberpunk Satire🌆 Near-Future Dystopia👑 Reluctant Heir
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits Summary
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits 89%
A barista inherits a crime empire and becomes the star of a live murder show.
by David Wong 2015
3.98
24k+ ratings
🤖 Cyberpunk Satire🌆 Near-Future Dystopia👑 Reluctant Heir
The Circle
by Dave Eggers • 2013
Mae's dream job at the Circle comes with a catch: complete surveillance, and no way out.
3.43
232k+
👁️ Digital Panopticon💰 Surveillance Capitalism🏢 Tech Campus Dystopia
The Circle Summary
The Circle 89%
Mae's dream job at the Circle comes with a catch: complete surveillance, and no way out.
by Dave Eggers 2013
3.43
232k+ ratings
👁️ Digital Panopticon💰 Surveillance Capitalism🏢 Tech Campus Dystopia
The Heart Goes Last
by Margaret Atwood • 2015
Homeless, they joined a town of monthly jail turns. An affair made them each other's inmates.
3.39
75k+
🎭 Dystopian Satire🏚️ Near-Future Collapse📹 Surveillance State
The Heart Goes Last Summary
The Heart Goes Last 89%
Homeless, they joined a town of monthly jail turns. An affair made them each other's inmates.
by Margaret Atwood 2015
3.39
75k+ ratings
🎭 Dystopian Satire🏚️ Near-Future Collapse📹 Surveillance State
The Impulse Society
by Paul Roberts • 2014
Short-term thinking did not just wreck the economy. It rewired every corner of American life.
3.64
467
🛍️ Consumer Culture⏳ Short-Term Thinking💰 Financialization
The Impulse Society Summary
The Impulse Society 89%
Short-term thinking did not just wreck the economy. It rewired every corner of American life.
by Paul Roberts 2014
3.64
467 ratings
🛍️ Consumer Culture⏳ Short-Term Thinking💰 Financialization
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley • 1932
Factory-made humans, a pleasure drug, and one man who wants something real.
3.98
2.1M+
🧬 Engineered Humanity🏷️ Caste Society🧠 Conditioned Society
Brave New World Summary
Brave New World 89%
Factory-made humans, a pleasure drug, and one man who wants something real.
by Aldous Huxley 1932
3.98
2.1M+ ratings
🧬 Engineered Humanity🏷️ Caste Society🧠 Conditioned Society
The Warehouse
by Rob Hart • 2019
A failed entrepreneur and a spy enter a company town where wristbands track every heartbeat.
3.84
15k+
🏢 Corporate Dystopia⏳ Near-Future Thriller🕵️ Corporate Espionage
The Warehouse Summary
The Warehouse 89%
A failed entrepreneur and a spy enter a company town where wristbands track every heartbeat.
by Rob Hart 2019
3.84
15k+ ratings
🏢 Corporate Dystopia⏳ Near-Future Thriller🕵️ Corporate Espionage
Captains Of Consciousness
by Stuart Ewen • 1977
Your desires were not your own. They were manufactured to pacify a restless industrial workforce.
4.10
229
📺 Advertising History🛍️ Consumer Culture🕹️ Social Control
Captains Of Consciousness Summary
Captains Of Consciousness 88%
Your desires were not your own. They were manufactured to pacify a restless industrial workforce.
by Stuart Ewen 1977
4.10
229 ratings
📺 Advertising History🛍️ Consumer Culture🕹️ Social Control
Capitalist Realism
by Mark Fisher • 2009
Capitalism won by making its alternatives unthinkable, and its dysfunctions feel like facts of life.
4.21
41k+
🏭 Late Capitalism📕 Marxist Theory📜 End Of History
Capitalist Realism Summary
Capitalist Realism 88%
Capitalism won by making its alternatives unthinkable, and its dysfunctions feel like facts of life.
by Mark Fisher 2009
4.21
41k+ ratings
🏭 Late Capitalism📕 Marxist Theory📜 End Of History
The Day the World Stops Shopping
by J.B. MacKinnon • 2021
Less shopping saves the planet and wrecks the economy. The path through that trap.
4.13
5k+
🧃 Consumer Culture📉 Environmental Economics🛒 Overconsumption
The Day the World Stops Shopping Summary
The Day the World Stops Shopping 88%
Less shopping saves the planet and wrecks the economy. The path through that trap.
by J.B. MacKinnon 2021
4.13
5k+ ratings
🧃 Consumer Culture📉 Environmental Economics🛒 Overconsumption
Void Star
by Zachary Mason • 2017
A translator's perfect memory makes her a target in a near-future city of favelas and rogue AI.
3.67
3k+
🌃 Literary Cyberpunk🌆 Near-Future Dystopia💾 Commodified Memory
Void Star Summary
Void Star 88%
A translator's perfect memory makes her a target in a near-future city of favelas and rogue AI.
by Zachary Mason 2017
3.67
3k+ ratings
🌃 Literary Cyberpunk🌆 Near-Future Dystopia💾 Commodified Memory
Future Shock
by Alvin Toffler • 1970
Acceleration is a solvent: of place, of loyalty, of identity itself.
3.82
5k+
⚡ Technological Change🔮 Futurism📥 Information Overload
Future Shock Summary
Future Shock 88%
Acceleration is a solvent: of place, of loyalty, of identity itself.
by Alvin Toffler 1970
3.82
5k+ ratings
⚡ Technological Change🔮 Futurism📥 Information Overload
The Brain Sell
by David R. Lewis • 2013
Brain scans, store scents, data trails: the invisible science of turning you into a buyer.
3.88
138
🧠 Consumer Psychology🧬 Neuromarketing🛒 Retail Psychology
The Brain Sell Summary
The Brain Sell 88%
Brain scans, store scents, data trails: the invisible science of turning you into a buyer.
by David R. Lewis 2013
3.88
138 ratings
🧠 Consumer Psychology🧬 Neuromarketing🛒 Retail Psychology
The McDonaldization of Society
by George Ritzer • 1995
Fast-food logic now runs your hospital, your classroom, and your phone. The efficiency isn't free.
3.81
2k+
🛒 Consumer Culture⚙️ Rationalization Theory🏛️ Weberian Sociology
The McDonaldization of Society Summary
The McDonaldization of Society 88%
Fast-food logic now runs your hospital, your classroom, and your phone. The efficiency isn't free.
by George Ritzer 1995
3.81
2k+ ratings
🛒 Consumer Culture⚙️ Rationalization Theory🏛️ Weberian Sociology
Radicalized
by Cory Doctorow • 2019
When her smart toaster bricks itself, a refugee discovers the whole building is a corporate jail.
4.03
8k+
🏙️ Near Future Dystopia💻 Hacktivism🧳 Refugee Resilience
Radicalized Summary
Radicalized 88%
When her smart toaster bricks itself, a refugee discovers the whole building is a corporate jail.
by Cory Doctorow 2019
4.03
8k+ ratings
🏙️ Near Future Dystopia💻 Hacktivism🧳 Refugee Resilience
Ripe
by Sarah Rose Etter • 2023
Her only constant is a black hole. At a Silicon Valley startup, it begins to feed.
3.58
34k+
🖥️ Tech Dystopia🏢 Corporate Alienation👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Trauma
Ripe Summary
Ripe 88%
Her only constant is a black hole. At a Silicon Valley startup, it begins to feed.
by Sarah Rose Etter 2023
3.58
34k+ ratings
🖥️ Tech Dystopia🏢 Corporate Alienation👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Trauma
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes
by Clay McLeod Chapman • 2025
A liberal New Yorker races south as a viral possession consumes his parents through their screens.
3.27
15k+
🎭 Social Horror📺 Media Possession🦠 Memetic Virus
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes Summary
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes 88%
A liberal New Yorker races south as a viral possession consumes his parents through their screens.
by Clay McLeod Chapman 2025
3.27
15k+ ratings
🎭 Social Horror📺 Media Possession🦠 Memetic Virus
Prime Meridian
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia • 2017
In a future Mexico City, a gig companion dreams of Mars, but escape costs everything.
3.78
2k+
💼 Gig Economy🚀 Mars Colonization👵 Unlikely Friendship
Prime Meridian Summary
Prime Meridian 88%
In a future Mexico City, a gig companion dreams of Mars, but escape costs everything.
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2017
3.78
2k+ ratings
💼 Gig Economy🚀 Mars Colonization👵 Unlikely Friendship
Industrial Society and Its Future
by Ted Kaczynski • 2024
Modern comfort is a trap that erases human purpose. The only escape: abolishing technology.
3.88
203
📜 Anarcho-Primitivism⚙️ Critique Of Technology🌍 Radical Environmentalism
Industrial Society and Its Future Summary
Industrial Society and Its Future 88%
Modern comfort is a trap that erases human purpose. The only escape: abolishing technology.
by Ted Kaczynski 2024
3.88
203 ratings
📜 Anarcho-Primitivism⚙️ Critique Of Technology🌍 Radical Environmentalism
Company
by Max Barry • 2006
His new company has no clients and no product. Asking why is a firing offense.
3.76
7k+
🏢 Corporate Satire🏭 Office Dystopia🖤 Dark Comedy
Company Summary
Company 88%
His new company has no clients and no product. Asking why is a firing offense.
by Max Barry 2006
3.76
7k+ ratings
🏢 Corporate Satire🏭 Office Dystopia🖤 Dark Comedy
The Slynx
by Tatyana Tolstaya • 2007
In frozen, mutated Russia, a scribe copies a tyrant's decrees as a forest beast steals minds.
3.81
6k+
📚 Forbidden Books🧠 Cultural Amnesia😈 Dark Absurdist Humor
The Slynx Summary
The Slynx 88%
In frozen, mutated Russia, a scribe copies a tyrant's decrees as a forest beast steals minds.
by Tatyana Tolstaya 2007
3.81
6k+ ratings
📚 Forbidden Books🧠 Cultural Amnesia😈 Dark Absurdist Humor
The Art of Life
by Zygmunt Bauman • 2008
Getting richer made us shoppers, not happier, and forced endless self-reinvention without ethics.
3.76
872
🧠 Continental Philosophy🌊 Late Modernity😊 Happiness Studies
The Art of Life Summary
The Art of Life 88%
Getting richer made us shoppers, not happier, and forced endless self-reinvention without ethics.
by Zygmunt Bauman 2008
3.76
872 ratings
🧠 Continental Philosophy🌊 Late Modernity😊 Happiness Studies
No Logo
by Naomi Klein • 2000
Products became logos, logos became lifestyles, and public life became a mall.
3.89
33k+
🌐 Corporate Globalization🛒 Consumer Culture🏭 Labor Exploitation
No Logo Summary
No Logo 88%
Products became logos, logos became lifestyles, and public life became a mall.
by Naomi Klein 2000
3.89
33k+ ratings
🌐 Corporate Globalization🛒 Consumer Culture🏭 Labor Exploitation
Severance
by Ling Ma • 2018
The fever traps victims in habit loops. Candace Chen, office worker, was already there.
3.88
134k+
🏢 Office Apocalypse🧧 Immigrant Daughter🌫️ Quiet Apocalypse
Severance Summary
Severance 88%
The fever traps victims in habit loops. Candace Chen, office worker, was already there.
by Ling Ma 2018
3.88
134k+ ratings
🏢 Office Apocalypse🧧 Immigrant Daughter🌫️ Quiet Apocalypse
The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan
by Liesl Clark • 2020
A no-shopping plan that saves money, cuts waste, and turns neighbors into your best resource.
3.44
2k+
🧩 Anti-Consumerism🎁 Gift Economies🤝 Sharing Economy
The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan Summary
The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan 88%
A no-shopping plan that saves money, cuts waste, and turns neighbors into your best resource.
by Liesl Clark 2020
3.44
2k+ ratings
🧩 Anti-Consumerism🎁 Gift Economies🤝 Sharing Economy
Cool
by Steven Quartz • 2015
Cool began as rebellion; now it runs the economy. Blame the brain's hidden status circuits.
3.60
225
🧠 Consumer Psychology📡 Social Signaling🏆 Status Dynamics
Cool Summary
Cool 88%
Cool began as rebellion; now it runs the economy. Blame the brain's hidden status circuits.
by Steven Quartz 2015
3.60
225 ratings
🧠 Consumer Psychology📡 Social Signaling🏆 Status Dynamics
The Sheep Look Up
by John Brunner • 2003
America is dying of its own poison, and the people who warned us are being hunted.
3.91
6k+
☣️ Ecological Dystopia🗣️ Reluctant Prophet🧩 Fragmented Narrative
The Sheep Look Up Summary
The Sheep Look Up 88%
America is dying of its own poison, and the people who warned us are being hunted.
by John Brunner 2003
3.91
6k+ ratings
☣️ Ecological Dystopia🗣️ Reluctant Prophet🧩 Fragmented Narrative
Super-Cannes by J. G. Ballard
by J.G. Ballard • 2000
Above Cannes, a corporate paradise hides its last doctor's killing spree behind a wall of silence.
3.72
5k+
🏢 Corporate Dystopia🏘️ Gated Community Horror🔪 Sanctioned Violence
Super-Cannes by J. G. Ballard Summary
Super-Cannes by J. G. Ballard 88%
Above Cannes, a corporate paradise hides its last doctor's killing spree behind a wall of silence.
by J.G. Ballard 2000
3.72
5k+ ratings
🏢 Corporate Dystopia🏘️ Gated Community Horror🔪 Sanctioned Violence
The Society of the Spectacle
by Guy Debord • 1967
Life is no longer lived but watched. A 1967 diagnosis of how images replaced reality.
4.03
24k+
📚 Critical Theory🎭 Situationist🛒 Commodity Culture
The Society of the Spectacle Summary
The Society of the Spectacle 88%
Life is no longer lived but watched. A 1967 diagnosis of how images replaced reality.
by Guy Debord 1967
4.03
24k+ ratings
📚 Critical Theory🎭 Situationist🛒 Commodity Culture
Sick Bastards
by Matt Shaw • 2014
A memoryless family cannibalizes strangers to survive, until one learns the apocalypse was faked.
3.54
4k+
💀 Extreme Horror🥩 Cannibalism Horror🩸 Body Horror
Sick Bastards Summary
Sick Bastards 88%
A memoryless family cannibalizes strangers to survive, until one learns the apocalypse was faked.
by Matt Shaw 2014
3.54
4k+ ratings
💀 Extreme Horror🥩 Cannibalism Horror🩸 Body Horror
BEYOND EXTINCTION
by John Keeble • 2018
A geneticist's refuge becomes a lab; his lover, a numan; his DNA, a museum of extinction.
3.83
138
🧬 Genetic Dystopia🧬 Species Replacement🧠 Genetic Memory
BEYOND EXTINCTION Summary
BEYOND EXTINCTION 88%
A geneticist's refuge becomes a lab; his lover, a numan; his DNA, a museum of extinction.
by John Keeble 2018
3.83
138 ratings
🧬 Genetic Dystopia🧬 Species Replacement🧠 Genetic Memory
On Paradise Drive
by David Brooks • 2005
The future is America's home: a restless chase that never ends, consuming dreams along the way.
3.58
814
🏘️ Suburban America🚗 Exurban Sprawl🧩 Social Fragmentation
On Paradise Drive Summary
On Paradise Drive 88%
The future is America's home: a restless chase that never ends, consuming dreams along the way.
by David Brooks 2005
3.58
814 ratings
🏘️ Suburban America🚗 Exurban Sprawl🧩 Social Fragmentation
A History of India, Vol. 1
by Romila Thapar • 1990
How a 1999 sci-fi film exposed the simulation we were already living in.
3.63
2k+
🎬 Film Criticism📖 Cultural Theory🏛️ Postmodernism
A History of India, Vol. 1 Summary
A History of India, Vol. 1 88%
How a 1999 sci-fi film exposed the simulation we were already living in.
by Romila Thapar 1990
3.63
2k+ ratings
🎬 Film Criticism📖 Cultural Theory🏛️ Postmodernism
The High Price of Materialism
by Tim Kasser • 2002
Worldwide, materialism predicts less happiness and worse relationships. The reason isn't obvious.
3.65
708
🛒 Consumer Psychology😊 Happiness Research🧭 Intrinsic Motivation
The High Price of Materialism Summary
The High Price of Materialism 88%
Worldwide, materialism predicts less happiness and worse relationships. The reason isn't obvious.
by Tim Kasser 2002
3.65
708 ratings
🛒 Consumer Psychology😊 Happiness Research🧭 Intrinsic Motivation
Archaeologies of the Future
by Fredric Jameson • 2005
Utopia's function is not to predict the future but to prove the present is not inevitable.
4.04
596
📚 Literary Criticism🧠 Critical Theory☭ Western Marxism
Archaeologies of the Future Summary
Archaeologies of the Future 88%
Utopia's function is not to predict the future but to prove the present is not inevitable.
by Fredric Jameson 2005
4.04
596 ratings
📚 Literary Criticism🧠 Critical Theory☭ Western Marxism
Brave New World Revisited
by Aldous Huxley • 2006
In a drug-calmed utopia of designer humans, one outsider craves the pain they've abolished.
3.94
23k+
🧬 Caste By Design💊 Chemical Contentment📚 Forbidden Literature
Brave New World Revisited Summary
Brave New World Revisited 88%
In a drug-calmed utopia of designer humans, one outsider craves the pain they've abolished.
by Aldous Huxley 2006
3.94
23k+ ratings
🧬 Caste By Design💊 Chemical Contentment📚 Forbidden Literature
Vanishing World
by Sayaka Murata • 2015
In a world without sex or family, one woman raised on romance watches her own desires vanish.
3.20
15k+
🏙️ Speculative Dystopia🇯🇵 Japanese Speculative Fiction🫀 Quiet Body Horror
Vanishing World Summary
Vanishing World 88%
In a world without sex or family, one woman raised on romance watches her own desires vanish.
by Sayaka Murata 2015
3.20
15k+ ratings
🏙️ Speculative Dystopia🇯🇵 Japanese Speculative Fiction🫀 Quiet Body Horror
Why Nothing Works
by Marvin Harris • 1981
An anthropologist finds that broken toasters, inflation, and cults share a single cause.
3.76
264
🏛️ Cultural Anthropology🇺🇸 American Society📖 Cultural Criticism
Why Nothing Works Summary
Why Nothing Works 88%
An anthropologist finds that broken toasters, inflation, and cults share a single cause.
by Marvin Harris 1981
3.76
264 ratings
🏛️ Cultural Anthropology🇺🇸 American Society📖 Cultural Criticism
Survival of the Richest
by Douglas Rushkoff • 2022
Tech billionaires build escape pods, not solutions. Rushkoff was invited to help plan one.
3.83
3k+
💻 Digital Capitalism🖥️ Tech Criticism👁️ Surveillance Capitalism
Survival of the Richest Summary
Survival of the Richest 88%
Tech billionaires build escape pods, not solutions. Rushkoff was invited to help plan one.
by Douglas Rushkoff 2022
3.83
3k+ ratings
💻 Digital Capitalism🖥️ Tech Criticism👁️ Surveillance Capitalism
Filterworld
by Kyle Chayka • 2024
Your Netflix queue reshapes what artists make: the global aesthetic is now algorithm-friendly.
3.62
5k+
🔄 Algorithmic Curation🏛️ Cultural Homogenization👀 Attention Economy
Filterworld Summary
Filterworld 88%
Your Netflix queue reshapes what artists make: the global aesthetic is now algorithm-friendly.
by Kyle Chayka 2024
3.62
5k+ ratings
🔄 Algorithmic Curation🏛️ Cultural Homogenization👀 Attention Economy
Digimodernism
by Alan Kirby • 2009
The internet did not just add screens. It ended postmodernism and installed a new cultural logic.
3.49
78
🖥️ Digital Culture📡 Media Theory🔄 Postmodernism Critique
Digimodernism Summary
Digimodernism 88%
The internet did not just add screens. It ended postmodernism and installed a new cultural logic.
by Alan Kirby 2009
3.49
78 ratings
🖥️ Digital Culture📡 Media Theory🔄 Postmodernism Critique
The End of Reality
by Jonathan Taplin • 2023
Four billionaires want $20 trillion for Mars, the metaverse, crypto, immortality. Who pays?
3.92
540
🏢 Tech Oligarchy🐍 Libertarian Critique👁️ Surveillance Capitalism
The End of Reality Summary
The End of Reality 88%
Four billionaires want $20 trillion for Mars, the metaverse, crypto, immortality. Who pays?
by Jonathan Taplin 2023
3.92
540 ratings
🏢 Tech Oligarchy🐍 Libertarian Critique👁️ Surveillance Capitalism
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