The Changing Modes and Manifestations of Ruination. Nostalgia for Classical Decay
The Changing Modes and Manifestations of Ruination. Nostalgia for Classical Decay

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, I focus on the changing modes, forms, and manifestations of ruination.In classical cases, it was Nature ruining the artificial, i.e., human artifacts, like construc-tions. In our contemporary reality, however, we can see more and more warning signsthat this “natural” and “classical” ruination is itself challenged and changing: what we havenow could instead be described as the ruination of Nature by the artificial. While earlierwe paid attention to a relic caused by the agency of Nature, now we will have to pay atten-tion to the relic of Nature’s agency itself.

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