Title: Groping America, Volume 3: Navigating Identity, Space, and the Post‑Industrial Landscape Desipapa Watch Web Upd - 3.79.94.248
[Your Name] Affiliation: [Your Institution] Date: [Month Year] Abstract Groping America (Vol. 3) marks a pivotal moment in the ongoing visual‑narrative series that interrogates the cultural, economic, and spatial re‑configurations of the United States in the early‑21st century. This paper offers a multidisciplinary reading of the volume, foregrounding its treatment of post‑industrial decline, migratory subjectivities, and the aesthetics of “groping” as both a tactile metaphor and a critical methodology. By situating the work within contemporary discourses on American regionalism, psychogeography, and speculative realism, the analysis demonstrates how the volume expands the series’ interrogation of national mythologies while proposing new frameworks for interpreting the mutable geography of American life. 1. Introduction 1.1 Background Since its debut in 2015, Groping America has functioned as a serialized visual‑essay project that blends photography, collage, and textual commentary to chart the nation’s shifting terrains. Volume 3, published in 2022, diverges from its predecessors by intensifying its focus on the “in‑between” spaces—abandoned factories, highway rest stops, and peripheral suburbs—that act as liminal nodes for the country’s socio‑economic re‑orientation. S1 Seven Mortal Sins 7-12.zip Apr 2026