Emma Fraser
Email: emma.p.fraser@gmail.com
Thesis Title: Interrupting Progress: Ruins, Rubble and Catastrophe in Walter Benjamin's History
This thesis presents sites of contemporary ruin in relation to Walter Benjamin's writings on history, memory and perception, via a spatial poetics that aims to reconsider both modern ruins and Benjamin’s preoccupation with debris, detritus and rubble, through a close consideration of the affective characteristics of sites of recent ruin.
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Gallery of modern ruins and urban decay: http://statiscape.com/
