Digital Culture & Society (DCS) Vol. 10, Issue 2/2024 - Ruins and the Contemporary

The cultural fascination with ruins is nothing new. Architects, poets and commentators like Rose Macaulay (1953), Christopher Woodward (2002) and Robert Ginsberg (2004) have extensively and critically investigated the significations of ruins in Western culture. In our lived environments, our media landscapes, and our social media feeds, we are surrounded by ruination: the ruins of war, ecological disaster, post-industrial decline, austerity, social collapse, and infrastructural decline. This issue of Digital Culture & Society addresses the complex thematic field of ruination and decay in contemporary culture.

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• Assisted by: Fuchs (Editor), Mathias Fuchs (Editor), Daniel Vella (Editor)
• Publisher: Transcript
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.11.2026
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general)
• EAN: 9783837673203
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-7320-3
• Pages: 222
• Illustrations: 17 SW-Abb.
• Dimensions (packing): 15.5 x 1 x 24 cm
• Weight (packing): 405 g
• Series: Digital Culture & Society > 20; Digital Culture & Society 20 > 20
• Subjects: Pädagogik, Internet, Photography & photographs, EDUCATION / General, Education, Architecture, Media, Media Studies, Media Theory, Digitalization, Culture, Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Journal, Digital Media, Sociology of Media, Cultural Studies, PHILOSOPHY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Social Theory, Television, PHILOSOPHY / Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Social interaction, HISTORY / Social History, Philosophy, Decorative arts, Social & cultural history, EDUCATION / Research, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, ART / Film & Video, DESIGN / History & Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, PHOTOGRAPHY / Criticism, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism, knowledge, Communities, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, Political structure & processes, Industrial / commercial art & design, Literary studies: general, Philosophy & theory of education, Design, industrielle und kommerzielle Kunst, Illustration, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Graphic novels: history & criticism, Impact of science & technology on society, History of engineering & technology, Ethical & social aspects of IT, Urban communities, TV & society, Sociology and anthropology, Electronic, holographic & video art, Film Theory & Criticism, Drawing and drawings, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects, Philosophy and psychology, Philosophy and theory, Culture and institutions, The political process, Political science (Politics and government), Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric, History, geographic treatment, biography, Data processing and computer science, Public performances, Computer art (Digital art), Photography, computer art, cinematography, videography