The essays in this co-written book examine architectural dereliction and its experience, interpretation and even appropriation in classical arts and popular cul

Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to imperiled harbors, postindustrial ruins to Cold War test sites, Curated Decay presents an unparalleled provocat

Covering 800 years of intellectual and literary history, Prica considers the textual forms of ruins. Western ruins have long been understood as objects riddled

How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient

Three narratives intertwine to tell a tale of escalating madness and heroism: A lone renegade in the future, living as an exile on a starship that comes under a