"Displaced from familiarity and order, in the ruin, we encounter a place of desolation marked by ambiguity and indeterminacy. ...the ruin comes to be experienced, not as a temporally emplaced, but as haunted. The marginalizing of urban ruins has not meant that their history has ceased. Instead, we confront a place that intrudes upon the seamless present, disordering the unmarked line of time by invoking a spectral plane of uncanniness. Yet the persistence of the ruin is not a persistence of substantiality. The ruin is not the same as its previous (active) incarnation. Now, an altered place emerges, which retains the shadow of its old self, but simultaneously radically destabilizes that presence."
[Dylan Trigg: 'The Aesthetics of Decay' p.131]
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