Relics of Modernity: Theorizing Rhetorics and Performances of Ruins

This collection of essays expands upon an emerging topic within and beyond the field of communication studies that challenges students and scholars of the built environment to peer beyond the somewhat typical collection of monuments, museums, and memories often found in essays related to space and place, to consider the role of ruins as lenses upon modernity.

These locales, which include economic ghost towns, industrial relics, prison sites, and other places associated with so-called dark to...