Part 1. The Romance of Ruins
Chapter 1. In Search of History
Chapter 2. Pueblo Utopias
Chapter 3. Things Fall Apart: Modernity and Entropy
Chapter 4. Creative Destruction
Chapter 5. Destroying Modernity: The World Trade Center
Part 3. The World in Ruins
Chapter 6. Atomic War and the Destructive Sublime
Chapter 7. Framing the Postmodern Waste Land
Chapter 8. Picturing Climate Change: "It's the Apocalypse"
Conclusion. Looking Backward on Tomorrow: The Course of Empire.
