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REWIND: READ ‘DETROITISM’ BY JOHN PATRICK LEARY IF YOU HAVEN’T

John Patrick Leary’s essay, “Detroitism” explores the most common rhetoric that Detroit as a city and a symbol, often falls victim to—in addition to critically analyzing—the validity of ‘ruin porn’ which attempts to document but often exploits its history. Leary is a American literature teacher at Wayne State University in Detroit. The essay explores in-depth the shallowness of popular ruin pornographers, […]

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SHARE YOUR VISION FOR THE CITY-PUSH THE WORLD IN A NEW DIRECTION FROM DETROIT RUINS!

The Detroit Free Press wants to hear from you; share your unique vision of the future of Detroit. The newspaper wants to “complete” the portrait of the city, but we should aim to give them something fresh to balance the endless ruins photos. Click here for more information on submitting your artwork. After reading John Patrick Leary’s ‘Detroitism,’ you’ll probably […]

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JOHN PATRICK LEARY’S ‘DETROITISM’

John Patrick Leary’s poignant essay, ‘Detroitism,’ featured in the Guernica: a magazine of art & politics, relays heartfelt insight from a Detroit resident as the city becomes a target of “Ruin photography, […] criticized for its ‘pornographic’ sensationalism.” I admit I’m a junkie for images of the dilapidated beauty decaying in the old buildings, rich […]

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