Ruins of Modernity by Hell, Julia -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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COVER PAGE TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT PAGE Contents LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION

Ruin Gazing I: The (Imperial) Archive Ruin Gazing II: Awakenings? Do We Need an Ontology of Ruins? Ruin Gazing III: Reflexivity Synopses Notes

PART I: CATASTROPHE, UTOPIA, AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF DESTRUCTION

1: AUTHENTIC RUINS: PRODUCTS OF MODERNITY

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2: AIR WAR AND ARCHITECTURE

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3: MODERNISM AND DESTRUCTION IN ARCHITECTURE

Howard Roark Minoru Yamasaki Frank Gehry Joseph Stalin Mikhail Lifshits Modernism and Destruction Notes

4: RUINS OF THE AVANT-GARDE: FROM TATLIN’S TOWER TO PAPER ARCHITECTURE

Ruins of the Revolution: Nature Morte with Tatlin’s Tower Phantom Limbs of Nonconformist Art: The Afterlife of the Tower in Conceptual Art and Paper Architecture Inhabiting Ruins: Paper Architecture and Installation Art Personal Epilogue: Immigrant Ruins Notes

PART II: RUINS AND THE DEMOCRATIC POLITY

5: MODERNITY AS A “DESTROYED ANTHILL”: TOLSTOY ON HISTORY AND THE AESTHETICS OF RUINS

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6: DEMOCRATIC DESTRUCTION: RUINS AND EMANCIPATION IN THE AMERICAN TRADITION

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7: THE RUINS OF A REPUBLIC: CZECH MODERNISM AFTER MUNICH, 1938–1939

Ruins of a Republic Ruin and Its Counter-Metaphors: Construction and Cleansing Ruins and the Mobilization of Pathos “The Difficult Fate of a Small Nation”: Josef ˇ Capek’s Written on Clouds Notes

8: LAYERED TIME: RUINS AS SHATTERED PAST, RUINS AS HOPE IN ISRAELI AND GERMAN LANDSCAPES AND LITERATURE

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9: CITIES, CITIZENSHIP, AND OTHERJOBURG STORIES

Tales of the City How the City Got Its Shape The Post-apartheid City Notes

PART III: EMPIRES, RUINS, AND THEIR STORIES

10: IMPERIAL RUIN GAZERS, OR WHY DID SCIPIO WEEP?

A “Dread Foreboding”: Scipio the Younger and the Destruction of Carthage Carthage—Rome—London—New York: The Genealogy of a Scopic Scenario Spengler’s Ruins of Modernity, or the Return of the Barbarian Reinventing Empire: Space, Spatial Imaginary, Slavery, and Genocide Hitler’s Grand Tour, or the Führer as Imperial Ruin Gazer Building a Future in Ruins: Hitler’s and Speer’s Theory of Ruin Value Notes

11: HEGEL’S PHILOSOPHY OF WORLD HISTORY VIA SEBALD’S IMAGINARY OF RUINS: A CONTRAPUNTAL CRITIQUE OF THE “NEW SPACE” OF MODERNITY

Spatiotemporal Axes of Modernity, or Hegel and the Sea Sebald and the Sea, or Another English Pilgrimage Notes

12: VILCASHUAMÁN: TELLING STORIES IN RUINS

History, Narrative, Posthegemony Vilcashuamán Incas and Chancas Spaniards Peruvians Liberators Notes

13: THE MONUMENT IN RUINS

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14: SIMULTANEOUS MODERNITY: NEGOTIATIONS AND RESISTANCES IN URBAN INDIA

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PART IV: (POST) RUINSCAPES

15: RUINS AS MODELS: DISPLAYING DESTRUCTION IN POSTWAR GERMANY

From Rubble to Ruins 1945 and 1960 Absences and Presence Absence and Agency Notes

16: “MEMORY TRACES OF AN ABANDONED SET OF FUTURES”: INDUSTRIAL RUINS IN THE POSTINDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPES OF GERMANY

A New Way of Seeing Diving in History Frozen in Time Interim Landscapes Notes

17: COLONIAL MELANCHOLY AND FORDIST NOSTALGIA: THE RUINSCAPES OF NAMIBIA AND DETROIT

The Ruins of Namibia and Detroit Rubble Strategies The German Namibian Ruin Cult Defense Mechanisms The Ruins of Detroit and Fordist Nostalgia Conclusion Notes

18: DR. STRANGELOVE’S CABINET OF WONDER: SIFTING THROUGH THE ATOMIC RUINS AT THE NEVADA TEST SITE

Frenchman’s Flat Sedan Crater Doomtown Notes

19: INVISIBLE AT A GLANCE: INDIGENOUS CULTURES OF THE PAST, RUINS, ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES, AND OUR REGIMES OF VISIBILITY

A Concept in Ruins? The Archaeological Site and Its Relation to Material Pasts The Colonial Gaze, Local People, and the Creation of Ruins Invisible at a Glance: Western Regimes of Visibility and Indigenous Material Pasts Making the Invisible Visible Notes

PART V: RUIN GAZING

20: FOUNDATIONAL RUINS: THE LISBON EARTHQUAKE AND THE SUBLIME

The Progressivist Narrative Classification and Excess Beholding the Ruins Notes

21: THE PROMISE OF A RUIN: GAVRILA DERZHAVIN’S ARCHAIC MODERNITY

Ruina.ru Ruins, 1807: The History of a Coincidence Ruins and Metonymies Notes

22: RUIN CINEMA

Ruins in Reverse Gazing and Traveling: Cinema, Ruin, History Viewing Ruins Toward a Cinematic Ruin Aesthetic Notes

23: THE PLACE OF RUBBLE IN THE TRÜMMERFILM

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24: LOST IN TIME: BORIS MIKHAILOV AND HIS STUDY OF THE SOVIET

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BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTORS

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