"Beck's probing disquisition on the multiple ways in which representations of the past in history, literature, film, and photography are coming under renewed questioning, is timely and thought-provoking. Landscape as Weapon ranges well beyond rural nostalgia, fake industrial heritage, and historical misrepresentation, to go into the bleaker territory of ruin porn and dark tourism. Here are the blasted heaths of military firing ranges and nuclear testing grounds, the defensive territories cultivated by proponents and activists of bunker ideology, the continuing memorialization of tyrants, where the old and the new, satellite skies and pastoral latifundia, slums and cultural quarters, all sit alongside each other. These are places where, in the words of novelist William Gibson, 'The future is already here but has just not been evenly distributed.' Beck shines a light on all these conundrums, helpfully so.".