Ruins of modernity
By: edited by Julia Hell and Andreas Schönle.
Contributors: Hell, Julia.; Schönle, Andreas.
Series: Politics, history, and culture : a series from the international institute at the university of michigan; Politics, history, and culture
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822344568; 9780822344742
Subjects: Ruins, Modern; Civilization, Modern -- 20th century; Civilization, Modern -- 21st century; Ruins in literature; Ruins in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Authentic ruins : products of modernity / Andreas Huyssen; title: Air war and architecture / Anthony Vidler; title: Modernism and destruction in architecture / Vladimir Paperny; title: Ruins of the avant-garde : from Tatlin's tower to the paper architecture / Svetlana Boym; title: Modernity as a "destroyed anthill" : Tolstoy on history and the aesthetics of ruins / Andreas Schönle; title: Democratic destruction : ruins and emancipation in the American tradition / Russell A. Berman; title: The ruins of a republic : Czech modernism after Munich, 1938/39 / Jonathan Bolton; title: Layeredtime : ruins as shattered past, ruins as hope in Israeli and German landscapes and literature / Amir Eshel; title: Cities, citizenship, and other Joburg stories / Lucia Saks; title: Imperial ruin gazers, or why did Scipio weep? / Julia Hell; title: Hegel's philosophy of world history via Sebald's imaginary of ruins : a contrapuntal critique of the "new space" of modernity / Todd Samuel Presner; title: Vilcashuamán : telling stories in ruins / Jon Beasley-Murray; title: The monument in ruins / Daniel Herwitz; title: Simultaneous modernity : negotiations and resistances in urban India / Rahul Mehrotra; title: Ruins as models : displaying destruction in postwar Germany / Helmut Puff; title: "Memory traces of an abandoned set of futures" : industrial ruins in the postindustrial landscapes of Germany / Kerstin Barndt; title: Colonial melancholy and Fordist nostalgia : the ruinscapes of Namibia and Detroit / George Steinmetz; title: Dr. Strangelove's cabinet of wonder : sifting through the atomic ruins at the Nevada test site / Jonathan Veitch; title: Invisible at a glance : indigenous cultures of the past, ruins, archaeological sites, and our regimes of visibility / Gustavo Verdesio; title: Foundational ruins : the Lisbon earthquake and the sublime / Alexander Regier; title: The promise of a ruin : Gavrila Derzhavin's archaic modernity / Tatiana Smoliarova; title: Ruin cinema / Johannes von Moltke; title: The place of rubble in the Trümmerfilm / Eric Rentschler; title: Lost in time : Boris Mikhailov and his study of the Soviet / Helen Petrovsky.