Retail Ruins

<p>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. </p><p> 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.</p>