The city after

Detroit, USA, July 2013: the cradle of the Fordist economy is officially bankrupt. In the ruins of the American dream, several visions clash. Post-apocalyptic ghost town or garden city freed from the yoke capitalist, Motor City becomes a blank page where different versions of our future: all is lost, or all is possible again. In a literary investigation integrating the stories produced by the inhabitants, the activists, writers, researchers, Raphaëlle Guidée puts our imaginaries of collapse and asks: how to tell the worlds complex, fragile, heterogeneous which recompose themselves in times of disasters?