Relics of Modernity: Theorizing Rhetorics and Performances of Ruins
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This collection of essays explores an emerging area within and beyond communication studies, inviting scholars of the built environment to look past familiar monuments and museums and instead consider ruins as critical lenses on modernity. Focusing on sites such as ghost towns, industrial remnants, prisons, and locations linked to dark tourism, the essays examine spaces often marked by decay, melancholy, and perceived failure. Though visually uncelebrated, ruins can evoke awe, reveal the fragility of modern confidence, and inspire reverence for impermanence. Through theoretically rigorous and vividly written chapters, contributors analyze ruins across and beyond the United States, addressing questions of authenticity, identity, memory, representation, and power.
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Publication Date
1-17-2025
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
