The paper “Postmodern Representation and Commodity Spectacle in Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locusts”, written by Mr. Darvay, allowed me to gain insight on a novel I had never read, and to be frank never heard of either. As I was working my way through the paper, my brain was scattered as I tried to grasp the concept that was being talked about. Although, right of the bat the sentence “compressed into one huge junkyard...commercialized society and culture” truly stood out to me. My first thought brought me to the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep where the world is slowly turning into kipple, rubbish produced from human interaction, in a post apocalyptic state, destructed by a nuclear global war. This dystopian novel, which I read
