Citations:ruinism

English citations of ruinism

Destruction and catastrophe

1. • 1880, T. B. Cauldwell, Wisconsin Baptist anniversaries‎^[1], page 113:

     Ignorance, cast, and superstition abound in the south; Unitarianism and socialism in the east; Mormonism, Anarchism, and Romanism in the west; a stupendous race problem in the north; and ruinism both north and south and east and west.

   • 1995, Vladislav Todorov, Red Square, Black Square: Organon for Revolutionary Imagination‎^[2], page 182:

     ALCHEMY OF DECAY AND RUINISM The post-communist prophets hone their sharp ironies, herald the coming of doomsday, draw apocalyptic visions.

   • 1997, Paul Rabinow, Architecture of fear (review on cover)‎^[3], page 322:

     This important collection tracks the myriad forms of defensible spaces, from simple walls to phantasmagoric 'neo-ruinism.'