Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction. STATES OF DECAY 1
5. 1. Forever “Falling Apart”: Semiotics and Rhetorics of Decay 17
6. 2. Trash and Treasure: Pathologies of Permanence on the Margins of Our Plastic Age 28
7. 3. Infrastructure as Decay and the Decay of Infrastructure 37
8. 4. The Waterfall at the End of the World: Earthquakes, Entropy, and Explanation 47
9. 5. “Vile Corpse”: Urban Decay as Human Beauty and Social Pollution 58
10. 6. Decay or Fresh Contact? The Morality of Mixture after War’s End 73
11. 7. Seeds of Decay 86
12. 8. Discourses of Decay in Settler Colonial Australia 99
13. 9. Decay as Decline in Social Viability among Ex-Militiamen in Lebanon 110
14. 10. Relational Decay: White Helpers in Australia’s Indigenous Communities 128
15. 11. Decay, Rot, Mold, and Resistance in the US Prison System 140
16. References 153
17. Contributors 171
18. Index 175