Landscape as Weapon
Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal
Published on 18. January 2021
1 pages
978-1-78914-306-5 (ISBN)
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Once the playgrounds and raw material for the avant-garde, abandoned places and things - decommissioned military sites, post-industrial spaces, contested and forgotten edgelands - are 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 past - the fields and factories, test sites, back alleys, machines and statues - are 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.
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English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
3,53 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78914-306-5 (9781789143065)
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01/2021
Reaktion Books
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John Beck is Professor of Modern Literature and Director of the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture at the University of Westminster. His many books include Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature (2009).
