Retail Ruins
Author | : Jacob C. Miller |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2023-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781529225532 |
ISBN-13 | : 1529225531 |
Rating | : 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Download or read book Retail Ruins written by Jacob C. Miller and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-03 with total page 150 pages. 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.