The Four Stones are believed to have been created years ago by four of our gods as a punishment for the humans misdeeds. Either that or they wanted to see what kind of choices we would make once we found them. Diaty, The Goddess of Time, Hydrona, The Goddess of Crashing waves, Cyclos, The God of Tearing Winds, and Zenarith, The God of Incinerating Flames all poured a small ounce of their power into the Four Stones. They were thinking correctly if they believed that we would destroy each other in our lusts for their power. The gods were horrible. Why create something that we would do nothing but destroy each other with? Or is there more to it than that...

This book uses plasticity as a metaphor for understanding how the past endures and evolves within the landscape, and the ways in which remembering shapes the sites we occupy and use. The plastic site is characterised both by its resilience, its form never entirely altered from an earlier mould, and by its malleability, which ensures that whatever persists is inevitably transformed. Embodied in its present configuration are the many moments that have produced it over time, and these are continually supplemented and modified. Surveying examples from Paris, Algiers and Marseille, and media as diverse as literature, film, photography, blogs and video games, Plastic Pasts interrogates how different communities and cultural producers have grappled with the present past in space as an enduring and dynamic memory. It argues that understanding sited memory as plastic entails recognising a multiplicity of immutable pasts that exist in a permanent state of ongoing evolution.

The Four Stones are believed to have been created years ago by four of our gods as a punishment for the humans misdeeds. Either that or they wanted to see what kind of choices we would make once we found them. Diaty, The Goddess of Time, Hydrona, The Goddess of Crashing waves, Cyclos, The God of Tearing Winds, and Zenarith, The God of Incinerating Flames all poured a small ounce of their power into the Four Stones. They were thinking correctly if they believed that we would destroy each other in our lusts for their power. The gods were horrible. Why create something that we would do nothing but destroy each other with? Or is there more to it than that...

Die vorliegende Arbeit wurde im Wintersemester 2007/2008 von der Habilita- onskommission des Fachbereichs Wirtschaftswissenschaft der Universitat B- men als schriftliche Habilitationsleistung angenommen. Sie entstand wahrend meiner Tatigkeit als akademischer Rat im Rahmen einer Kooperation des Lehrstuhls fur Betriebliche Steuerlehre und Wirtschaftsp- fung der Universitat Bremen und der FIDES Treuhandgesellschaft KG, Bremen. Wahrend des Entstehungsprozesses habe ich von vielen Seiten Unterstutzung erfahren. Danken mochte ich vor allem Herrn Prof. Dr. Franz Jurgen Marx, der die Arbeit mit grossem Interesse begleitet hat und durch seine stetige Diskus- onsbereitschaft sehr zu ihrem Gelingen beigetragen hat. Herrn Prof. Dr. Guido Forster und Herrn Prof. Dr. Thorsten Poddig gilt mein Dank fur die Ubernahme des Zweit- und Drittgutachtens. Besonders bedanke ich mich auch bei der FIDES Treuhandgesellschaft KG, Bremen, die es mir ermoglicht hat, nicht nur mein wissenschaftliches Interesse zu verfolgen, sondern daruber hinaus auch den Kontakt zur Praxis aufrecht zu halten. Namentlich zu erwahnen sind hier insbesondere Herr WP/StB Dr. Helge Bernd von Ahsen, Herr WP/StB Bernhard Bitter sowie Herr StB Dieter Tietjen. Bei Herrn Dipl. -Oec. Holger Dallmann bedanke ich mich fur wertvolle Anregungen, insbesondere in der Konzeptio- phase der Arbeit. Fur die tatkraftige Unterstutzung bei der Erstellung des dru- reifen Layouts danke ich Frau Ina Kronenberger sehr herzlich. Mein Dank ri- tet sich auch an Frau Sabine Scholler vom Gabler Verlag fur die gute Zus- menarbeit und kurzfristige Umsetzung der Veroffentlichung."