Date of Award

2026

Document Type

Thesis (Master's)

Department or Program

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

First Advisor

Harriette Yahr

Second Advisor

Eugenie Carabatsos

Third Advisor

Anna Minardi

Abstract

110% Asset Disruption is a satire of the modern workplace set in a lightly dystopian near- future United States. Written as a feature length film, it follows Ethan Martens, a citizen and employee of Calcudyne. Ethan has a contentious relationship with his manager Douglas Farview, who performs a series of hostile actions towards Ethan in order to attempt to force him out of the company. The conflict between the two men escalates until Ethan is put in the position of having to prevent Calcudyne's President & CEO from starting a global thermonuclear war. 110% Asset Disruption is influenced and inspired by satirical comedies such as Terry Gilliam's Brazil and Mike Judge's Office Space, as well as science fiction such as John Badham's WarGames and Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. It seeks both to lampoon the absurdities of the modern corporate workplace, and to engage with anxieties regarding the workplace of the future. The primary thematic focus is alienation, with characters finding themselves performing work they don't understand or enjoy. 110% Asset Disruption asks how an individual should react to being stuck in a sterile, inhuman space, and why one would choose to remain in such a space even when presented with other options. It looks at a world driven by capitalism, and wonders where it all ends. In a world all too willing to embrace the artificial, this story asks what the true cost is to turning humanity's future over into the hands of machines.

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