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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2013-11-01
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Series: | Societies |
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Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/3/4/482 |
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. |
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ISSN: | 2075-4698 |