TONG LAM
ABANDONED FUTURES
A JOURNEY TO THE POSTHUMAN WORLD
This photoessay book is a visual ethnography of industrial and postindustrial ruins from Asia, North America, and Europe. Above all, it is a meditation on time, modernity, and civilization. The book will have over 200 full color images and a dozen short essays.

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






(Tentative release date: Fall 2013)