Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline
Ruin Terrors and PleasuresRuin LustThe Deindustrial SublimeThe Problematic Concept of “Ruin Porn”“Discovering” Detroit’s RuinsFear and Longing in DetroitCapitalism and City BankruptcyThe “Creative Class”Privatizing EducationCorporate SubsidiesFord’s EmpireThe Deindustrialization of Detroit“Monetizing” the Detroit Institute of ArtsCan Detroit Be Saved?Urban Exploration. Beauty in DecayThe Thrill of TrespassSpace and MaterialityNothingness and the Aesthetics of DecayDetroit Ruin Images. Where Are the People?Nature versus CultureA Contemporary Pompeii?Nostalgia for the “Golden Age”Creative Interventions and Public ProjectsLooking for Signs of ResurrectionFrom Industrial Comeback Story to Pastoral PaeanAppropriating the Margins: Fashion and CosmeticsCool Survivalism: City Films, Music, and Theatre BizarreSurviving in the Postapocalyptic LandscapeNuclear Fear and Sci-Fi ThrillersBare Life and the Zombie ApocalypseNationalism versus GlobalizationThe Zombie as Racialized OtherZ World Detroit and Doomsday PreppersSelected Bibliography
