Ruin Porn Summary

After researching ten monuments in my hometown of Shamokin, a small anthracite coal region town in central Pennsylvania, I recognized a lack of representation of Shamokin’s coal mining heritage throughout its urban spaces. Considering coal was the main production of labor for decades, there are no public monuments dedicated to its most influential contribution to the world. This summer I undertook researching ten monuments that depict representations of coal miners and their heritage throughout different PA anthracite regions; thus, discovering how this important heritage is represented and its effect on the public memory of a town. As I archived materials on the monuments, I created a digital database curating the ten monuments and analyzing

The media bashes Cleveland for this everyone knows it. MGK attempts portrays the status of Cleveland through his album cover of General Admission. Even in the overall negative tone the media puts on the city, MGK expresses the value of the city by portraying the buildings in gold. He sees through the bad parts of the city and acknowledges its potential worth. The city, painted in gold, sits on small chunks of land that holds it up, seeming like it could fall any minute. This shows the cities roots makes everything unstable. Although there are no experts on Cleveland’s history or its roots in the room. We must take into account MGK’s credibility of growing up on the streets and understanding the city from his point of view tells us a lot. He wants Cleveland it be a great city, a city where everyone wants to take a vacation to. Additionally, MGK also shows how the profitable and the rich, in their ivory gold towers are far from the ugly gray ground and are surrounded by gold. This leaves the rich unaffected by the drab environment they are not exposed to, therefore they make no effort to change that

Requiem for Detroit? is a historical documentary, released in 2010 and directed by Julien Temple, about the decline and collapse of Detroit, one of America’s largest cities. It chronicles Detroit’s journey through its success in the automobile industry all the way through its urban decay and industrial collapse to the present day. As the film draws a close, Temple also suggests some ways forward for Detroit. He presents possibilities and clearly shows which he thinks is most likely through his use of interviews with subjects and visual representations of these offered opinions. The intended reading that Temple offers viewers is a complex one, with many anti-consumerist and anti-corporate ideas and leanings. Despite the ‘doom-laden’ feel of much of the text, Temple paints optimism for the potential for a progressive and productive future for Detroit. Throughout the documentary he clearly expresses this intended reading through effective use of motifs, shown by visual and sound techniques, music and interviews with both privileged and non-privileged characters.

For example, Temple showed clips of ex convicts who would confess to crimes they committed and admitted to it being a source of ‘fun’. One man says “abnormal behaviour, in an abnormal environment, is a normal response” (RFD?, 2010) By providing his viewers with evidence such as this, Temple was able to express that the reason for such violent outbreak in Detroit was a result of desperation among it’s youth. This insight on violence and crime that Temple provided raised levels of concern amongst his viewers that perhaps, this was the future for Detroit. His use of repeated sound effects such as police sirens and women screaming gave the illusion that Detroit was doomed to fade to rubble. His use of music and repeated footage of Detroits’ tragic landscape also helped to support this potential pathway for his intended reading. This possible outcome for Detroit however, was not truly challenged until the last final moments of his film.

Detropia is a documentary directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady that explores the decline of Detroit, Michigan. The film is to raise awareness of the city that used to flourish but is now struggling to support its citizens with the downfall of its automobile industry. Detropia was made in 2012 and highlights important stories and viewpoints of citizens still living in Detroit who are filled with hope for its future. I chose to review Detropia because it really corresponds with what we have been discussing in Geography, such as urban geography and population growth. Urban geography is a subdiscipline of geography that deals with areas of the Earth’s surface that have a high concentration of buildings and architecture. The documentary Detropia goes into depth of why Detroit’s population is dissolving and what is being done about it.

Tucson is the largest city in southern Arizona, and is home to the University of Arizona and a population of over 500,000 people. This city has a unique sense of place, and it’s likely that if everyone in Tucson was asked to describe this sense of place, about five hundred thousand different answers would be given. Pictures are wonderful tools that can help people convey their sense of place to others more clearly than with merely words. With the technology that is available today, it is quite easy to access hundreds of pictures of Tucson, and almost every other city in the United States as well. With so many pictures to choose from, it’s a little difficult to find only one that can convey someone’s sense of place of a city, especially if that city is enormous or diverse. With a little bit of searching, however, it is possible. John Diebolt’s “Downtown Tucson, Arizona” captures my sense of place of Tucson as a lively, modern city that still contains hints of its rural past and embraces Arizona’s natural environment. Although this city is rather populous and urban, it can still seem hospitable and peaceful at times.

Detroit is able to be described in three words: crime, cars, corruption. Everything is different, and here I begin a realistic upgrade. The graffiti of the abandoned, neglected buildings give off the criminal ways of downtown Detroit and further to the right of the uptown. In downtown Detroit, you have all of the car shows. Many of them go on for days at a time, and in all parts of Detroit, especially downtown, you

Detroit, the motor city, known by many for cars and to others for being the murder capital of the world. This has caused many people to stop visiting and exclude Detroit from being a place of interest. I have lived here all my life, and yes it has had its rough times but lately Detroit has been improving drastically. The causes of the city to improve were to make people already living here feel safer. Moreover, to change our illustration as one of the most dangerous cities. In addition to this we want people to start visiting again and to see the metamorphosis that has struck our city. Many recent changes brought to our city have been architectural, criminal rates precipitating and film making. The city as a whole has been working diligently to improve and keep improving. Although we face economical issues, dealing with the bankruptcy has been priority to many. By analyzing Detroit these past few years there has been major change everywhere that has brought a positive effect to our atmosphere.

What is “ruin porn”? Don’t be quick to assume such as myself and think about the social taboo of “porn”. In reality, ruin porn is a recent movement in photography that takes the decline of the built-environment (cities, buildings, infrastructure) as its subject to make it into this aesthetic photo to be publicized. However, the authors manage to speak the truth that although such “shocking photographs” only serve to “obscure the humanity and the complexity behind the city’s long struggle”. The authors are able to evoke a feeling of empathy to the audience by signaling that although the photographs of Detroit seem “aesthetic”, these are the enduring struggles of Detroit citizens.

Revenge pornography, also called nonconsensual pornography, has become quite the controversial topic over the past few years. This issue has affected and infiltrated the lives of people including everyday Janes to celebrities like Emma Watson and Mischa Barton. This article outlines someone who fell prey to this harassment and was victimized by her ex-boyfriend. It also goes in to other experiences and the legal ramifications and paths that are available, shedding light on the issue in its entirety.

This city's history has been written, erased, and rewritten throughout this violent century. Its legibility relies as much on visible markers of built space as on images and memories repressed and ruptured by traumatic events.

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Narratives are a popular genre throughout literature and within this genre one can find graphic narratives. Sometimes there are images of activities or body parts that some people would think of as explicit. The narrative Fun Home includes s a few images that some may believe to be inappropriate and even pornographic. Since, this narrative contains these images, some jump to the conclusion that the book is pornography, which is not true. Per Google, pornography is defined as “printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity, intended to stimulate erotic rather than aesthetic or emotional feelings.” The images shown in Fun Home are used to describe how the main character figured out her sexuality, which happens to be very important to the story line. If these images were intended for arousal, then those images would be considered porn. I believe that the authors of graphic narratives depict sexuality with meaning behind it, which gives “emotional feelings,” and is not what pornography is intended to do.

To meet the aim and objectives of the research, a combination of qualitative research methods is used. To begin with, the study involves a literature review focused on three main topics: ruins conservation in the urban landscape; values and significance in heritage conservation; and ruins authenticity and design intervention. The study looks at definitions, discourses, and problems occurred within the heritage field.

The variety and range of the photographic essays, from urban ruins to public spaces, and from ground surfaces to mass housing, show the beauty and complexity of what lies ahead. The ‘life of the city’ can be reduced neither to the rational functionality of the modern city nor the nostalgic