What to Do with Ruins?

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What to Do with Ruins? is written by Joan Ramon Resina and published by Liverpool University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 183624939X (ISBN 10) and 9781836249399 (ISBN 13).

The essays in this book explore the history of ruins in multiple cultures and periods. Authors study ways in which ruins can be appropriated, foregrounded and re-semanticized for political purposes. The links between the materiality of monuments and global processes of ruination are seldom explored, as are the historicity of rubble and its museumification. Ruins are predicated on the interplay between presence and absence; they remind us of caducity while conjuring up the spectrum of the completeness that would negate them. They can awaken the eeriness of the disintegrating modern city and serve as a metaphor for institutional decay. But they can also underpin proposals of restoration through salvage and reuse of the rubble.