Ruins of modernity /

Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather, looking at ruins, writing about them, and representing them are acts framed by a long tradition. This unique interdiscip...

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Other Authors: Adams, Julia (Editor), Hell, Julia (Contributor, Editor), Schönle, Andreas (Contributor, Editor), Steinmetz, George (Contributor, Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, [2010]
Series:Politics, History, and Culture : 30
Subjects:
Civilization, Modern > 20th century.
Civilization, Modern > 21st century.
Ruins in literature.
Ruins in motion pictures.
Ruins, Modern.
ART / Criticism.
civilizácia
ruiny
elektronické dokumenty
ISBN:9780822390749
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I CATASTROPHE, UTOPIA, AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF DESTRUCTION
  • AUTHENTIC RUINS
  • AIR WAR AND ARCHITECTURE
  • MODERNISM AND DESTRUCTION IN ARCHITECTURE
  • RUINS OF THE AVANT-GARDE
  • PART II RUINS AND THE DEMOCRATIC POLITY
  • MODERNITY AS A ''DESTROYED ANTHILL''
  • DEMOCRATIC DESTRUCTION
  • THE RUINS OF A REPUBLIC
  • LAYERED TIME
  • CITIES, CITIZENSHIP, AND OTHER JOBURG STORIES
  • PART III EMPIRES, RUINS, AND THEIR STORIES
  • IMPERIAL RUIN GAZERS, OR WHY DID SCIPIO WEEP?
  • HEGEL'S PHILOSOPHY OF WORLD HISTORY VIA SEBALD'S IMAGINARY OF RUINS
  • VILCASHUAMÁN
  • THE MONUMENT IN RUINS
  • SIMULTANEOUS MODERNITY
  • PART IV (POST)RUINSCAPES
  • RUINS AS MODELS
  • ''MEMORY TRACES OF AN ABANDONED SET OF FUTURES''
  • COLONIAL MELANCHOLY AND FORDIST NOSTALGIA
  • DR. STRANGELOVE'S CABINET OF WONDER
  • INVISIBLE AT A GLANCE
  • PART V RUIN GAZING
  • FOUNDATIONAL RUINS
  • THE PROMISE OF A RUIN
  • RUIN CINEMA
  • THE PLACE OF RUBBLE IN THE TRÜMMERFILM
  • LOST IN TIME
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX

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