By Dora Apel
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12 In her phrases describing the “smell of fire and mortality” and the “roofless summit” of a staircase meeting the sky, Macaulay captures the rawness of new ruins while asserting that “ruin pleasure must be at one remove, softened by art,” as well as poetry and fantasy. ”13 Macaulay’s acute insight into the need for a “remove” in order for ruin pleasure to occur merits further exploration through the concept of the sublime. The Deindustrial Sublime The strategies of contemporary ruin imagery are necessarily in dialogue with romanticism and the aesthetic of the sublime.
To reclaim our cities, however, these and other more far-reaching solutions must address the needs of the collective population and not just the interests of a small elite. ” Images of romantic ruination spur dreams of self-reinvention and economic resurgence and there are many young, mostly white, “creatives,” in addition to artists, flocking to the city from around the world even as its longtime residents flee, suggesting that ruins and their representation create a mythos almost as appealing as it is appalling.
5 percent cut to most pension checks (exempting police and firefighters) and also calls for a “claw back” of “overly generous” interest earned in pensioners’ retirement accounts, in effect doubling or tripling the actual reduction in monthly pension payments. Cost-of-living increases would be reduced and retiree health care coverage eliminated. For the seventy-five hundred retirees too young for Medicare, this would be a major blow. 3 billion liability in return for setting up a $450 million health care trust that would offer Detroit retirees a mere $175 per month to help buy insurance under the Affordable Health Care Act (also known as “Obamacare”) that can Fear and Longing in Detroit • 31 cost around $5,000 per year for mid-range coverage and includes hefty outof-pocket expenses.