Arctic Archives
Ice, Memory and Entropy
1st Edition
Published on 21. October 2019
318 pages
978-3-8394-4656-0 (ISBN)
Description
This pioneering volume explores the Arctic as an important and highly endangered archive of knowledge about natural as well as human history of the anthropocene.Focusing on the Arctic as an archive means to investigate it not only as a place of human history and memory - of Arctic exploring, >conquering< and colonizing -, but to take into account also the specific environmental conditions of the circumpolar region: ice and permafrost. These have allowed a huge natural archive to emerge, offering rich sources for natural scientists and historians alike.Examining the debate on the notion of (>natural<) archive, the cultural semantics and historicity of the meaning of concepts like >warm<, >cold<, >freezing< and >melting< as well as various works of literature, art and science on Arctic topics, this volume brings together literary scholars, historians of knowledge and philosophy, art historians, media theorists and archivologists.
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»Boasting an impressive collection of literary scholars, theorists, and scientists from several disciplinary backgrounds, this thoroughly researched and engagingly written volume provides an excellent foundation for future work on an intriguing and worthwhile subject.«More details
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- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Arctic as an Archive
- WHAT IS A >NATURAL ARCHIVE<?
- On Similarities and Differences between Cultural and Natural Archives
- Archival Metahistory and Inhuman Memory
- The Melting Archive: The Arctic and the Archives' Others
- Landscapes as Archives of the Future?
- Memory in the Anthropocene: Notes on Slow Archives and Melting Glaciers
- PERFORMING ARCTIC ARCHIVES
- A Fragment of Future History
- The Absence of the Arctic
- The Snowfield as an Archive of Soviet Underground Performance Art
- Excerpts from Anna Schwartz's Archive
- Gender in the Twentieth-Century Polar Archive
- An Arctic Archive for the AnthropoceneAnthropocene: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault
- ICE - MESSAGE(S) OF A MEMORY MEDIUM
- From Prague to Greenland: Ice Memories in Libuse Moníková's Novel Treibeis (Drift Ice)
- Myth of Preservation: Images of Ice, Snow and Glaciers as Metaphors for Memory in Post- Holocaust Literature and Art (Sebald, Celan, Balka)
- Investigating the Lab?ratory of Popular Arctic Narrative in Russian Literature from the 1930s to the 1950s
- Archives of Knowledge and Endangered Objects in the Anthropocene: From Chernobyl to Polar Landscapes in the Work of Lina Selander and Amy Balkin
- Natural Archives as Counter Archives: Gulag Literature from Witness to Postmemory
- Contributors
