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Ruin Memories : Materialities, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 1 An archaeology of ruins -- 2 Things, ethics and heritage -- 2 Trusted vagueness: the language of things and the order of incompleteness -- 3...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
: Taylor and Francis
, 2014
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Archaeological Orientations
Archaeological Orientations Ser |
| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=1682256 |
| Related Items: | Erscheint auch als:
Ruin Memories : Materialities, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 1 An archaeology of ruins -- 2 Things, ethics and heritage -- 2 Trusted vagueness: the language of things and the order of incompleteness -- 3 Ethics and flesh: being touched by the otherness of things -- 4 The ontology of absence: uniting materialist and ecological interpretations at an abandoned open-pit copper mine -- 5 Palliative curation: art and entropy on Orford Ness -- 6 Industrial heritage and the ideal of presence -- 3 Material memory -- 7 My fatherâs things -- 8 In ruins old and new: cultivating threat on a former hacienda,Yucatán -- 9 Treasured memories: an anecdotal mapping of wartime caches in Estonia -- 10 Sværholt: recovered memories from a POW camp in the far north -- 4 Ruins, art, attraction -- 11 The affordances and potentialities of derelict urban spaces -- 12 Which ruins do we valorize? a visual calibration curve for the Balkan past -- 13 Children in ruins: bombsites as playgrounds in Second World War Britain -- 14 Silent power #1: Trondheim Harbour, Norway, 2012 -- 15 Invented revelation -- 5 Abandonment -- 16 No manâs land: the ontology of a space left over -- 17 Conduits of dispersal: dematerializing an early twentieth-century village in Iceland -- 18 Manifestations of conflict in a post-ceasefire state: material, memory and meaning in contemporary Northern Ireland -- 19 Things out-of-hand: the aesthetics of abandonment -- 6 Archaeologies of the recent past -- 20 Returning to where we have never been: excavating the ruins of modernity -- 21 Borders in ruin -- 22 Ruins of the weather war: studying the material remains of Allied and Wehrmacht activities in northeast Greenland -- 23 Materialising SkatÃ¥s â archaeology of a Second World War refugee camp in Sweden. 24 Object-oriented metrologies of care and the proximate ruin of Building 500. Since the nineteenth century, mass-production, consumerism and cycles of material replacement have accelerated; increasingly larger amounts of things are increasingly victimized rapidly and made redundant. At the same time, processes of destruction have immensely intensified, although largely overlooked when compared to the research and social significance devoted to consumption and production. The outcome is a ruin landscape of derelict factories, closed shopping malls, overgrown bunkers and redundant mining towns; a ghostly world of decaying modern debris normally omitted from academic concerns and conventional histories. The archaeology of the recent or contemporary past has grown fast during the last decade. This development has been concurrent with a broader popular, artistic and scholarly interest in modern ruins in general. Ruin Memories explores how the ruins of modernity are conceived and assigned cultural value in contemporary academic and public discourses, reassesses the cultural and historical value of modern ruins and suggests possible means for reaffirming their cultural and historic significance. Crucial for this reassessment is a concern with decay and ruination, and with the role things play in expressing the neglected, unsuccessful and ineffable. Abandonment and ruination is usually understood negatively through the tropes of loss and deprivation; things are degraded and humiliated while the information, knowledge and memory embedded in them become lost along the way. Without even ignoring its many negative and traumatizing aspects, a main question addressed in this book is whether ruination also can be seen as an act of disclosure. If ruination disturbs the routinized and ready-to-hand, to what extent can it also be seen as a recovery of memory as exposing meanings and presences that perhaps are only possible to grasp at second hand when no longer immersed in their withdrawn and useful reality? Anybody interested in the archaeology of the contemporary past will find Ruin Memories an essential guide to the very latest theoretical research in this emerging field of archaeological thought |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (511 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781317695806 |
