Disposable Thought: 3 (Psychology of Technology Trilogy)

Cole Scott-Knox-Under an idealistic technophobe purposefully relegating himself to a minimum-wage fast food job suddenly notices he is suffering from a strange neurosis: inanimate objects appear to be speaking to him and the symptoms are worsening. Hallucinations of lethal drink lids personified congratulations balloons desperate old VHS tapes buried-alive beepers chatty styrofoam cups and a holocaust of waste threaten to sever him from his family friends and job. Or are they hallucinations at all?This final installment of a triptych of novels about technology and madness sends characters both animate and inanimate on a sweeping adventure into neurosis metaphysics drinking garbage love crazed artists and entrepreneurs powerful furniture magnates hyperbolic intellectuals family politics world revolution and eventually into South Dakota.A weird dark comedy examining one of the foundational pieces of U.S. modernity and crisis-disposability in all its concrete and abstract forms.