Ruins of Modernity
1st Edition
Published on 19. March 2010
528 pages
978-0-8223-9074-9 (ISBN)
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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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Julia Hell is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Post-Fascist Fantasies: History, Psychoanalysis, and East German Literature, also published by Duke University Press.Andreas Schönle is Professor of Russian Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of The Ruler in the Garden: Politics and Landscape Design in Imperial Russia and Authenticity and Fiction in the Russian Literary Journey, 1790-1840.
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Julia Hell and Andreas Schönle
Part I. Catastrophe, Utopia, and the Architecture of Destruction
1. Authentic Ruins: Products of Modernity / Andreas Huyssen
2. Air War and Architecture / Anthony Vidler
3. Modernism and Destruction in Architecture / Vladimir Paperny
4. Ruins of the Avant-Garde: From Tatlin's Tower to the Paper Architecture / Svetlana Boym
Part II. Ruins and the Democratic Polity
5. Modernity as a "Destroyed Anthill": Tolstoy on History and the Aesthetics of Ruins / Andreas Schönle
6. Democratic Destruction: Ruins and Emancipation in the American Tradition / Russell A. Berman
7. The Ruins of a Republic: Czech Modernism after Munich, 1938-39 / Jonathan Bolton
8. Layered Time: Ruins as Shattered Post, Ruins as Hope in Israeli and German Landscapes and Literatures / Amir Eshel
9. Cities, Citizenship and Other Jo burg Stories / Lucia Saks
Part III. Empires, Ruins, and Their Stories
10. Imperial Ruin Gazers, or Why did Scipio Weep? / Julia Hell
11. Hegel's Philosophy of World History via Sebald's Imaginary of Ruins: A Contrapuntal Critique of the "New Space" of Modernity / Todd Samuel Presner
12. Vilcashuamán: Telling Stories in Ruins / Jon Beasley-Murray
13. The Monument in Ruins / Daniel Herwitz
14. Simultaneous Modernity: Negotiations and Resistances in Urban India / Rahul Mehrotra
Part IV. (Post-)Ruinscapes
15. Ruins as Models: Displaying Destruction
16. "Memory Traces of an Abandoned Set of Futures": Industrial Ruins in the Postindustrial Landscapes of Germany / Kerstin Barndt
17. Colonial Melancholy and Fordist Nostalgia: The Ruinscapes of Namibia and Detroit / George Steinmetz
18. Dr. Strangelove's Cabinet of Wonder: Sifting through the Atomic Ruins at the Nevada Test Site / Jonathan Veitich
19. Invisible at a Glance: Indigenous Cultures of the Past, Ruins, Archaeological Sites, and Our Regimes of Visibility / Gustavo Verdesio
Part V. Ruin Gazing
20. Foundational Ruins: The Lisbon Earthquake and the Sublime / Alexander Regier
21. The Promise of a Ruin: Gavrila Derzhavin's Archaic Modernity / Tatiana Smoliarova
22. Ruin Cinema / Johannes von Moltke
23. The Place of Rubble in the Trummerfilm / Eric Rentschler
24. Lost in Time: Boris Mikhailov and his Study of the Soviet / Helen Petrovksy
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Julia Hell and Andreas Schönle
Part I. Catastrophe, Utopia, and the Architecture of Destruction
1. Authentic Ruins: Products of Modernity / Andreas Huyssen
2. Air War and Architecture / Anthony Vidler
3. Modernism and Destruction in Architecture / Vladimir Paperny
4. Ruins of the Avant-Garde: From Tatlin's Tower to the Paper Architecture / Svetlana Boym
Part II. Ruins and the Democratic Polity
5. Modernity as a "Destroyed Anthill": Tolstoy on History and the Aesthetics of Ruins / Andreas Schönle
6. Democratic Destruction: Ruins and Emancipation in the American Tradition / Russell A. Berman
7. The Ruins of a Republic: Czech Modernism after Munich, 1938-39 / Jonathan Bolton
8. Layered Time: Ruins as Shattered Post, Ruins as Hope in Israeli and German Landscapes and Literatures / Amir Eshel
9. Cities, Citizenship and Other Jo burg Stories / Lucia Saks
Part III. Empires, Ruins, and Their Stories
10. Imperial Ruin Gazers, or Why did Scipio Weep? / Julia Hell
11. Hegel's Philosophy of World History via Sebald's Imaginary of Ruins: A Contrapuntal Critique of the "New Space" of Modernity / Todd Samuel Presner
12. Vilcashuamán: Telling Stories in Ruins / Jon Beasley-Murray
13. The Monument in Ruins / Daniel Herwitz
14. Simultaneous Modernity: Negotiations and Resistances in Urban India / Rahul Mehrotra
Part IV. (Post-)Ruinscapes
15. Ruins as Models: Displaying Destruction
16. "Memory Traces of an Abandoned Set of Futures": Industrial Ruins in the Postindustrial Landscapes of Germany / Kerstin Barndt
17. Colonial Melancholy and Fordist Nostalgia: The Ruinscapes of Namibia and Detroit / George Steinmetz
18. Dr. Strangelove's Cabinet of Wonder: Sifting through the Atomic Ruins at the Nevada Test Site / Jonathan Veitich
19. Invisible at a Glance: Indigenous Cultures of the Past, Ruins, Archaeological Sites, and Our Regimes of Visibility / Gustavo Verdesio
Part V. Ruin Gazing
20. Foundational Ruins: The Lisbon Earthquake and the Sublime / Alexander Regier
21. The Promise of a Ruin: Gavrila Derzhavin's Archaic Modernity / Tatiana Smoliarova
22. Ruin Cinema / Johannes von Moltke
23. The Place of Rubble in the Trummerfilm / Eric Rentschler
24. Lost in Time: Boris Mikhailov and his Study of the Soviet / Helen Petrovksy
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
