A Rhetoric of Ruins: Exploring Landscapes of Abandoned Modernity

A Rhetoric of Ruins combines conceptual and theoretical frameworks to explore ghost towns, disaster sites, and environmental badlands as remnants of modernity. Methods of analysis include Jeremiadic, hauntological, psychogeographic, and heterotopian ways of reading U.S. and international sites.

Andrew F. Wood is professor of communication studies at San José State University.