| Title | Ruin Machine |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Bryan Finoki (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0053.1.16 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-funambulist-papers-vol-1/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| Copyright | Finoki, Bryan |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2013-10-23 |
| Long abstract | The contemporary ruin today — in all its incarnations (from the aban-doned auto factories in Michigan to the World Trade Centers’ foot-print in NYC, Saddam Hussein’s elegant compounds in Baghdad that have since been converted into temporary barracks for the U.S. military — or from the vacant half-constructed towers in Dubai to the one billion squatters around the world who live in a different kind of recycled ruin, just to name a few) — hints at a spectrum of different spatial configurations of power that offer a kind of forensic evidence of not only neoliberalization’s false claim of flattening the playing field of economic opportunity around the world, but of the ongoing fail-ures in our social and political institutions themselves ,which have taken to a strategy of secrecy and deception in order to wage not just a War on Crime, Poverty, Drugs, Illegal Immigration, or Terror-ism, but what I see as a War on Space itself — ruin on a brand new, unprecedented scale |
| Page range | pp. 77–81 |
| Print length | 5 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |