Issue 20 Ruins Winter 2005/06

Table of Contents

Columns Main Ruins
  • Fragments from a History of Ruin
    Brian Dillon
    Picking through the wreckage
  • The Ruined Man
    George Pendle
    The melancholic folly of William Beckford
  • Artist Project / Infested
    Susan Silton
  • Elementary Particles: An Interview with Peter Brimblecombe
    Brian Dillon, Sina Najafi and Peter Brimblecombe
    Sneezing in the library
  • The Archaeology of Modernity
    Colin Jones
    Theodore Vacquer, Baron Haussmann's doppelganger
  • Stumped
    Walead Beshty and Eric Schwab
    What remains of the Thousand-Year Reich?
  • Derelict Utopias
    Mark Sanderson
    The Fascists go on holiday
  • Fantastic City
    Joseph Masco
    Engineering ruins in Cold War America
  • Artist Project / Time Mirror
    Jeremy Millar
  • Robert des Ruines
    Nina Dubin
    Speculating in the market for ruins
  • Appetite for Destruction
    Gordon Matta-Clark and J. Mark Loizeaux
    The art of demolition
  • Rome, Broken City
    Denise Bratton
    Patching up the Eternal City in the Renaissance
  • Artist Project / Untitled
    Ester Partegàs
  • The Dead Town
    Martin Herbert
    The toxic cold of Norilsk
  • Cabinetlandia: Update No. 3
    The fall of a DIY empire
And
  • Postcard / Copper Patinas
  • Bookmark / Simulated Distress Patterns for T-Shirt Graphics (Late 1990s)
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