Once the playgrounds and raw material for the avantgarde, abandoned places and thingsdecommissioned military sites, postindustrial spaces, contested and forgotten edgelandsare now just as likely to be seen as assets for entrepreneurs or connoisseurs of the authentically worn-out. This is the age of patina, where the material remains of times pastthe fields and factories, test sites, back alleys, machines, and statuesare coveted, adored, mourned, and commemorated, as well as sometimes despised. Through an exploration of a wide range of recent film, photography, art, and writing about place, Landscape as Weapon argues that these abandoned sites are a critical arena for debate about the meaning of space and time under late capitalism.