Retail Ruins: The Ghosts of Post-industrial Spectacle

In The Context Of Widespread Precarity And Ongoing Crises, It Is No Surprise Ruins Have Captured Much Attention In Recent Years. This Book Is About A New Kind Of Space, One That Is Deeply Troubling For Consumer Society: The Retail Ruin. Jacob C. Miller Bridges Human Geography, Archaeology And Critical Urban Studies To Offer A Starting Point For Conceptualizing Retail Ruins. Drawing On Fieldnotes And Photographs, Miller Crafts A Hauntological Approach Informed By The Theories Of Walter Benjamin And Jacques Derrida To More Recent Thinking On Assemblage, Spectacle And The Politics Of Urban Space.