Digital Culture & Society (DCS): Vol. 10, Issue 2/2024 – Ruins and the Contemporary
Daniel Vella · Mathias Fuchs
Oct 2025 · Digital Culture & Society Book 20 · transcript Verlag
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The cultural fascination with ruins is nothing new. Architects, poets and commentators like Rose Macaulay (1953), Christopher Woodward (2002) and Robert Ginsberg (2004) have extensively and critically investigated the significations of ruins in Western culture. In our lived environments, our media landscapes, and our social media feeds, we are surrounded by ruination: the ruins of war, ecological disaster, post-industrial decline, austerity, social collapse, and infrastructural decline. This issue of Digital Culture & Society addresses the complex thematic field of ruination and decay in contemporary culture.
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Mathias Fuchs (Dr.) ist ein Künstler und Medienwissenschaftler. Er war u.a. Senior Lecturer an der University of Salford in Greater Manchester, Vertretungsprofessor an der Universität Potsdam und Senior Fellow am Institute of Advanced Study on Media Cultures of Computer Simulation (MECS). Fuchs arbeitet am Institut für Kultur und Ästhetik Digitaler Medien an der Leuphana-Universität Lüneburg. Fuchs hat im Feld der künstlerischen Auseinandersetzung mit Computerspielen und deren Theorie Pionierarbeit geleistet und leitet ein DFG-gefördertes Projekt zu Gamification (2018-2021).
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