Staring at Hell | Kate Wagner
The artists of our time, with their ruin-porn coffee-table books, offer the world a glossy, anesthetized image of abandoned infrastructure from Chernobyl to Detroit.
Howdy 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)