Ruin Porn and the Obsession with Decay

1. Ruin Porn and the Anthropocene (Siobhan Lyons)

Part I. American Ruin

2. Detroit Was Always Made of Wheels: Confronting Ruin Porn in its Hometown (Kate Wells)

3. Gods and Monsters: A Solastalgic Examination of Detroit's Ruins and Representation (Christopher T. Gullen)

4. The Bronx Isn't Burning, Is It?: Ruin Porn and Contemporary Perceptions of The Bronx (Joseph Donica)

Part II.   Photographic Ruin

5. "Take Nothing but Photos, Leave Nothing but Footprints": How-to Guides for Ruin Photography (Susan A. Crane)

6. Where the (Moving) Sidewalk Ends: Images of Wasted Americana in the Preapocalyptic World (Amanda Firestone, Stephen Crompton and Corey George)

7. Picturing Ruin in the American Rustbelt: Andrew Borowiec's Cleveland: The Flats, the Mill, and the Hills (2008) (Susann Köhler)

Part III. Alternative Ruinscapes

8. Diachronic Fetishisation: Ruin Porn and Pitcairn Island Language, Archaeology, and Architecture (Joshua Nash and Martin Gibbs)

9. No Vacancy: History and Meaning of Contemporary Ruins in a Regional Australian City (Nancy Cushing, Michael Kilmister, and Nathan Scott)

Part IV. Virtual and Mediated Ruin

10. Immersive Ruin: Chernobyl and Virtual Decay (Michelle Bentley)

11. More than Ruins: (Post-)Apocalyptic Places in Film (Felix Kirschbacher)

12. 'This is not ruin tourism': Social Media and the Quest for Authenticity in Urban Exploration (André Jansson)

Siobhan Lyons is a media lecturer at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her book Death and the Machine: Intersections of Mortality and Robotics, was published by Palgrave Pivot in 2018. She has also been published in Philosophical Approaches to the Devil (2016), Westworld and Philosophy (2018), and Understanding Nietzsche, Understanding Modernism (2018).