Ruins of modernity
This interdisciplinary work uses the concept of the ruin as an approach to the study of modernity, asking whether there is an intrinsic logic of "ruin" at work in modernity.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Durham London : Duke University Press,
[2010]
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| Schlagworte: | Civilization, Modern Ruins in literature Ruins, Modern Ruins in motion pictures Electronic books Ruine Literatur Film Geschichte 1800-2005 |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 511 Seiten) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I - CATASTROPHE, UTOPIA, AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF DESTRUCTION; 1. Authentic Ruins: Products of Modernity; 2. Air War and Architecture; 3. Modernism and Destruction in Architecture; 4. Ruins of the Avant-Garde: From Tatlin's Tower to Paper Architecture; PART II - RUINS AND THE DEMOCRATIC POLITY; 5. Modernity as a ''Destroyed Anthill'':Tolstoy on History and the Aesthetics of Ruins; 6. Democratic Destruction: Ruins and Emancipation in the American Tradition; 7. The Ruins of a Republic: Czech Modernism after Munich, 1938-1939
- 8. Layered Time: Ruins as Shattered Past, Ruins as Hope in Israeli and German Landscapes and Literature9. Cities, Citizenship, and other Joburg Stories; PART III - EMPIRES, RUINS, AND THEIR STORIES; 10. Imperial Ruin Gazers, or Why Did Scipio Weep?; 11. Hegel's Philosophy of World History via Sebald's Imaginary of Ruins: A Contrapuntal Critique of the ''New Space'' of Modernity; 12. Vilcashuamán: Telling Stories in Ruins; 13. The Monument in Ruins; 14. Simultaneous Modernity: Negotiations and Resistances in Urban India; PART IV - (POST)RUINSCAPES
- 15. Ruins as Models: Displaying Destruction in Postwar Germany16. ''Memory Traces of an Abandoned Set of Futures'': Industrial Ruins in the Postindustrial Landscapes of Germany; 17. Colonial Melancholy and Fordist Nostalgia: The Ruinscapes of Namibia and Detroit; 18. Dr. Strangelove's Cabinet of Wonder: Sifting through the Atomic Ruins at the Nevada Test Site; 19. Invisible at a Glance: Indigenous Cultures of the Past, Ruins, Archaeological Sites, and Our Regimes of Visibility; PART V - RUIN GAZING; 20. Foundational Ruins: The Lisbon Earthquake and the Sublime
- 21. The Promise of a Ruin: Gavrila Derzhavin's Archaic Modernity22. Ruin Cinema; 23. The Place of Rubble in the Trummerfilm; 24. Lost in Time: Boris Mikhailov and His Study of the Soviet; Bibliography; Contributors; Index