New Piece in The Baffler about Industrial Ruin Porn
Added 2020-01-07 18:05:20 +0000 UTCHowdy folks! My new long form piece for The Baffler is now available online. It features all kinds of goodies:
- Enlightenment slap fights
- Industrial Ruins
- The Sublime (not the band)
- Superfund sites
- How we as a culture react to the aesthetics of a modernity that have destroyed our environment (you know, lighthearted stuff)
Comments
(double post b/c this is a new subj. hope that's ok) An unknown-by-"disaster porn" afficionadoes source is the CSB, which researches chemical accidents. They rightly avoid what would usually be "sensationalism" but, as that was already defined, could be termed "yellow journal-tainment". Reports from them are so operators can know what went wrong why at the other guy's plant.
K MI
2020-01-08 01:56:11 +0000 UTCI didn't feel like it was! But it is a great point that knowledge is indeed power and I thought it would be a good opportunity to suggest a book for those who felt similarly and wanted to learn more about the landscape itself. It's totally valid constructive criticism
McMansionHell
2020-01-08 01:46:22 +0000 UTC
