{"product_id":"into-the-wastelands-9783035807875","title":"Into the Wastelands","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Only the wastelands can save us now.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An urban investigator has been commissioned by a global corporation to determine how cities worldwide are being engulfed and destroyed by the wastelands that are mysteriously appearing at their heart. They are being \"wastelanded,\" generating turmoil and catastrophic technological meltdown in every global megalopolis. Throughout his inquiries he discovers that the world's cities are becoming apocalyptic, experiencing ecocide. The investigator himself will have to travel to the \"true north\" to escape that endpoint. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Today, urban imaginaries and speculative fictions often depict abandoned wastelands and ruinous cities that hold the expansive potential to engulf all urban and environmental space and render it entirely apocalyptic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In his novel \u003ci\u003eInto the Wastelands \u003c\/i\u003eStephen Barber examines urgent aspects of our wasted realities through fictional narratives: How does the figure of the proliferating, infinitely expansive wasteland enable us to understand that point of rupture for urban futures? Does the wasteland allow us to accurately assess the contemporary dynamic between the apocalyptic and the urban? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Barber \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of over thirty books. He has received many awards from international foundations, including the Rockefeller Foundation and the Henkel Foundation, among others. His recent books include \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise Ballrooms\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Projectionists\u003c\/i\u003e. He is professor at Kingston University, London, and a research fellow at the Free University, Berlin.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Diaphanes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51812615848210,"sku":"9783035807875","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0b65ecf8-ef41-40f1-9e40-0f046481d97f.jpg?v=1766492698","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/into-the-wastelands-9783035807875","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}