Since the 19th century, mass-production, consumerism & cycles of material replacement have accelerated; increasingly larger amounts of things are increasingly rapidly victimized & made redundant. At the same time processes of destruction have immensely intensified, although largely overlooked when compared to the research & social significance devoted to consumption & production. The outcome is a ruin landscape of derelict factories, closed shopping malls, overgrown bunkers & redundant mining towns; a ghostly world of decaying modern debris normally left out of academic concerns &...
Since the 19th century, mass-production, consumerism & cycles of material replacement have accelerated; increasingly larger amounts of things are incr...