The Aesthetics of Decay: Nothingness, Nostalgia, and the Absence of Reason

By Dylan Trigg

In The Aesthetics of Decay , Dylan Trigg confronts the remnants from the fallout of post-industrialism and postmodernism. Through a considered analysis of memory, place, and nostalgia, Trigg argues that the decline of reason enables a critique of progress to emerge. In this ambitious work, Trigg aims to reassess the direction of progress by situating it in a spatial context. In doing so, he applies his critique of rationality to modern ruins. The derelict factory, abandoned asylum, and urban alleyway all become allies in Trigg's attack on a fixed image of temporality and progress. The Aesthetics of Decay offers a model of post-rational aesthetics in which spatial order is challenged by an affirmative ethics of ruin.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820486469
• ISBN13: 9780820486468
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.9"