Returning to Nature, Dwelling in the City
Ecological Imagery and Models of History in Detroit Ruin Photography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3856010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Connor Pitetti (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 355-386 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Configurations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1063-1801 • E-ISSN: 1080-6520 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/con.2019.0020 |
| OpenAlex | W2969786370 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
This essay reads ruin photography as an attempt to interpret and respond to an apparent crisis in the modern project of progressive development and in the discourse of active human actors and passive nonhuman environments on which that project is founded. It identifies two distinct modes of contemporary ruin aesthetics: the first seeks to salvage the developmental model of history by identifying ruins as blank "natural" spaces open to development, and the second treats ruins as material evidence of the failure and deleterious consequences of development. The essay argues that in this second mode, images of urban ruins can be powerful tools for critiquing and dismantling modern understandings of history and human ecology
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Biology · Environmental ethics · Photography · Sociology · Visual arts · American Environmental and Regional History · Computer Science · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Philosophy · Ecology
Generelle Morphologie der Organismen
Feminism and the Mastery of Nature
In the Nature of Cities
Ecology without Nature
The Machine in the Garden
Beautiful Terrible Ruins
The Ecological Thought
Harrowed landscapes
Urban Triage, City Systems, and the Remnants of Community
Urban Decay Photography and Film
Uses of the End of the World
Post-Industrial Imaginaries
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Politics of Nature
Imperial Debris
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |