Rhetoric of Ruins

Exploring Landscapes of Abandoned Modernity

By Andrew F. Wood

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Publish Date

2021

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated

Language

eng

Pages

246

Description:

"A Rhetoric of Ruins combines conceptual and theoretical frameworks to explore ghost towns, disaster sites, and environmental badlands as remnants of modernity. Methods of analysis include Jeremiadic, hauntological, psychogeographic, and heterotopian ways of reading U.S. and international sites"--

subjects: Modern Ruins, Collective memory and city planning, Waste lands, Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986, Shrinking cities