Author : Jacob C. Miller
Release : 2023-03
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Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Retail Ruins by : Jacob C. Miller
Download or read book Retail Ruins written by Jacob C. Miller. This book was released on 2023-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the context of widespread precarity and ongoing crises, it is no surprise ruins have captured much attention in recent years. This book is about a new kind of space, one that is deeply troubling for consumer society: the retail ruin. Jacob C. Miller bridges human geography, archaeology and critical urban studies to offer a starting point for conceptualizing retail ruins. Drawing on fieldnotes and photographs, Miller crafts a hauntological approach informed by the theories of Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida to more recent thinking on assemblage, spectacle and the politics of urban space.