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Rhetoric of Ruins

Rhetoric of Ruins

Andrew F. Wood

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"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"--

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OL Work ID
OL25336749W

Subjects

Modern RuinsCollective memory and city planningWaste landsChernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986Shrinking cities

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