Sham Ruins: A User's Guide expands the specific example of the sham ruin into a general principle to examine the way purposely broken objects can be used both to uncover old truths and invent new ones.
Sham Ruins: A User's Guide expands the specific example of the sham ruin into a general principle to examine the way purposely broken objects can be used both to uncover old truths and invent new ones.
Brian Willems is Associate Professor of Literature and Film Theory at the University of Split, Croatia. He is most recently the author of Speculative Realism and Science Fiction (2017) and Shooting the Moon (2015). He has curated exhibitions of new media art in Croatia and Slovenia and is the author of the novella Henry, Henry (2017).
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Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1: Not Just Ruins Chapter 2: The Potential of the Past Chapter 3: Total Replication Chapter 4: Ruins on Fire
