Authors: Dominic Martin
Location: United Kingdom
Themes: Materiality, Nationalism, Religion
Dominic Martin, seeking to understand the phenomenon of ‘emptiness’, reflects on the emblematic trajectory of a remarkable building and the mythopoetic insight it provides into the absent future of the Scottish Catholic experience: the celebrated modernist architectural ruin, St Peter's, Cardross, Scotland.
Authors: Dace Dzenovska, Daniel M. Knight
Location: Bosnia, China, Croatia, France, Greece, Hungary, India, Latvia, United Kingdom
Themes: Capitalism, Infrastructure, Materiality, The City, The Future
This series argues that emptiness is emerging as a concrete spatial-temporal coordinate in the global landscape of capitalism and state power, and a heuristic device of political struggles.
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