Becoming Monument, Activating Windsor

What does it mean to live in a dying place? This auto-critical article asks this question in the context of the Windsor/Detroit region, one of the most economically depressed zones in North America. Using the work of Barthes, Benjamin, and Taussig, I ruminate on the psycho-somatic experiences of tr...

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Main Author: Karen Engle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2013-11-01
Series:Societies
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/3/4/482
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Summary:What does it mean to live in a dying place? This auto-critical article asks this question in the context of the Windsor/Detroit region, one of the most economically depressed zones in North America. Using the work of Barthes, Benjamin, and Taussig, I ruminate on the psycho-somatic experiences of trying to navigate a world that most writers have already dismissed as haunted and abandoned.
ISSN:2075-4698