A Rhetoric of Ruins
Exploring Landscapes of Abandoned Modernity
A Rhetoric of Ruins contributes to an interdisciplinary conversation about the role of wrecked and abandoned places in modern life. Topics in this book stretch from retro- and post-human futures to a Jeremiadic analysis of the role of ruins in American presidential discourse. From that foundation, A Rhetoric of Ruins employs hauntology to visit a California ghost-town, psychogeography to confront Detroit ruins, heterochrony to survey Pennsylvania's once (and future) Graffiti Highway, an expanded articulation of heterotopia to explore the pleasurable contamination of Chernobyl, and an evening in Turkmenistan's Doorway to Hell that stretches ac…
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- ISBN: 978-1-79361-152-9
- EAN: 9781793611529
- Produktnummer: 37409971
- Verlag: Lexington Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 246 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 32 Illustrations including: - 32 Black & White Illustrations.
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By Andrew F. Wood
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