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The exploitation of the human body: fecal matter, sores, morbid obesity, forced consumption of food. Hoarders, and the compulsion to endlessly consume goods without regard to their usefulness. The commodification of popular culture by the media; retro-racism and the return to the past. Comfort food in times of social uncertainty. The dangers of nostalgia. Patriotism and gluttony. The body as site of self-destruction. The television series My 600–1b Life; the film La Grande Bouffe as examples of self-destruction through excess.
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© 2014 Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
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Foster, G.A. (2014). Buy Before You Die. In: Hoarders, Doomsday Preppers, and the Culture of Apocalypse. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137468086_3
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