Si peu que rien : topophilie et topophobie de la désindustrialisation dans les écrits de Gilles Ortlieb.

Gilles Ortlieb, the author of more than twenty books of poetry, notebooks and non-fiction, has written extensively about the Franco-Luxemburgish border. In these writings, he describes an exile that is often experienced as a contradiction between topophilia and topophobia. Out of this contradiction emerges a singular post-industrial aesthetics that is characterised by a critique of industrial nostalgia on the one hand, and the development of an aesthetics of the mundane and the imperceptible. Troubling the usual temporalities of the post-industrial, Ortlieb reorients our gaze away from longings for better pasts or futures, and towards what is present in the landscape. Taking a cue from Ortlieb, this article thus proposes to recast the ethics of deindustrialisation as an ethics of presence, and asks the following questions: why are we fascinated by the spaces of deindustrialisation? How can we live in and with deindustrialisation? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]