Abstract
What does it mean to live in a dying place? This auto-critical article asks this question in the context of the Windsor/Detroit region, one of the most economically depressed zones in North America. Using the work of Barthes, Benjamin, and Taussig, I ruminate on the psycho-somatic experiences of trying to navigate a world that most writers have already dismissed as haunted and abandoned.
Highlights
What does it mean to live in a dying place? This auto-critical article asks this question in the context of the Windsor/Detroit region, one of the most economically depressed zones in North America
When you drive into Windsor, Ontario, from the 401, it looks like a real city
As you pull into Windsor proper, you find that this skyline doesn’t belong to Windsor: it sits across the river in another country
Summary
What does it mean to live in a dying place? This auto-critical article asks this question in the context of the Windsor/Detroit region, one of the most economically depressed zones in North America. When you drive into Windsor, Ontario, from the 401, it looks like a real city. In Windsor, Detroit is what you look at, but it’s not where you are.
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