
Ruins of Modernity
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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
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