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Ruin Memories - Materialities, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past (Paperback)
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Ruin Memories - Materialities, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past (Paperback)
Series: Archaeological Orientations
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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grasp at second hand when no longer immersed in their withdrawn and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
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Imprint: |
Routledge
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Archaeological Orientations |
Release date: |
December 2019 |
First published: |
2014 |
Editors: |
Bjornar Olsen
• THora Petursdottir
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Dimensions: |
246 x 174 x 43mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
510 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-367-86697-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
Archaeology >
General
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LSN: |
0-367-86697-8 |
Barcode: |
9780367866976 |
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