This ‘Abandoned Futures: A Journey to the Posthuman World’ book is by my exploration friend ‘TONG LAM’. Tong Lam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto. He is working on a photo essay book on industrial and post-industrial ruins and abandonment from around the world. His photographic works focus on industrial and postindustrial ruins and abandonment, urban spectacles, and China’s hystericalcontemporary transformation. You can enjoy decay and abandonment of an uncertain future where human industry fails and decay takes over from his book. The book Images are from Asia, North America, and Europe. It includes Gunkanjima and a few Japanese abandoned locations 🙂
産業の衰退によって廃墟となったスポットを紹介する本 ‘Abandoned Futures: A Journey to the Posthuman World ‘ が9月に発売されます。著者は私の探索友達であるトン・ラムさん。彼はトロント大学で歴史学科の教授をしていて、世界の産業の衰退と中国の経済成長に焦点を当てた研究をしています。この本には、北米、アジア、ヨーロッパの廃墟の美しい写真がエッセイつきで紹介されています。日本からは’軍艦島’ といくつかの廃墟が紹介される予定です。世界中の産業遺産をメインにした本は珍しいと思うので、私自身も発売が楽しみな一冊です。
‘Abandoned Futures’ is a breathtaking global overview of the decay and abandonment that sits in the midsts of humanities constant push towards an uncertain future. It’s a visual epic dedicated to the edge of our power, where human industry fails and decay takes over.
These are the landscapes that give the lie to our dreams of immortality.
Chapters:
– Time Speeds Up
– Space Age Modernism
– Automobile Civilization
– The Incredible Shrinking Detroit
– Battleship Island
– Industrial Sublime
– Pleasure Spots
– Bubbles
– War Machines
– Maximizing Life
– Faith
-Post-apocalypse Now
I had contributed a guide about Gunkanjima to him. I’m glad that my friend is about to publish a abandoned places book. I will be honored 🙂
Abandoned Futures: A Journey to the Posthuman World, Publication Date on September 1, 2013 !!!! What will the end of the world look like?
‘Abandoned Futures: A Journey to the Posthuman World’は2013年9月1日発売です!日本からも購入可能です。
Links
Abandoned Futures: A Journey to the Posthuman World [ハードカバー] , amazon.co.jp
Abandoned Futures: A Journey to the Posthuman World , Amazon.com
TONG LAM ,tonglam.com