"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"--.

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1: Yesterday’s Tomorrows
• 2: Post-­Human Futures
• 3: American Carnage
• 4: Bodie’s Ghostly Gaze
• 5: Detroit’s Guilty Pleasures
• 6: Centralia’s Graffiti Highway
• 7: Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone
• 8: The Doorway to Hell
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author