Ruin porn in a ruined world.

Our reality is quite ugly: Watching ruin porn in a ruined world.

Writer and critic Kate Wagner discusses depression, post-industrial ruin and the aesthetics of a landscape in mid-collapse - as time and nature claim the sites of mid-century production, we view them with a nostalgia manufactured by our alienation from labor, and an environmental fear for a future crashing down around us.

Kate wrote the article Staring At Hell for The Baffler.