Becoming Ruins is the completed Master's Thesis in Media Studies, which received the Distinguished Master's Thesis Award from The New School in 2024.

Thesis Supervisors: Eugene Thacker, Dominic Pettman.

This thesis explores the Gothic's aesthetic and affective aspects of ruin and decay in the Anthropocene. It examines how encounters with ruins—physical remnants and ecological devastations—elicit complex negative responses, challenging traditional humanism and fostering planetary consciousness. The Gothic mode’s focus on emotional excess and negative aesthetics offers insights into living amidst continuous loss. By integrating environmental humanities, affect theory, and Gothic studies, it articulates "unhuman aesthesis," a sensory engagement arising from a world that transcends human perception and cognition, reorienting us toward the cosmological. This work emphasizes the need to rethink sensation and feeling amid ecological upheaval, highlighting the Gothic's role in analyzing our planetary existence and afterlife.