ISBN:
9781137305855
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 252 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
DDC:
943
Keywords:
Historic sites
;
Memorials
;
Memory Social aspects
;
Space and time Social aspects
;
Group identity
;
Social change
;
Europe, Central Intellectual life
;
Europe, Central Historical geography
;
Europe, Central History 1989-
;
Europe, Central Social life and customs
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Osteuropa
;
Mitteleuropa
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
"The eleven essays in this volume explore the surprising resilience of productive instabilities enclosed in historical asymmetries, cultural paradoxes, and misplaced topographies. The recent history of Central Europe - a history that vividly blurs the line between imagination and reality - is a particularly vibrant case study of such dynamics, the same dynamics that lie at the heart of modern perception. It investigates how varied and opposing tendencies co-exist and are transposed from one cultural and temporal register to another; how they emerge and are maintained in constantly renewed, productive tensions - what we call 'inhabited ruins.' Along the way the reader will encounter music from the Terezin concentration camp as a reversed Potemkin village, the BMW as an itinerant lieu de memoire, Mies van der Rohe's architecture as spaces belonging nowhere, anxious geographies, extra-territorial sounds, misremembered avant-gardes, and post-apocalyptic identities that fell out of time"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
,
Notes on ContributorsPrologue: The Day the Wall Came Down (American Surreal)
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Introduction: Delicate Empiricism
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1. Ruins and Representations of 1989 : Exception, Normality, Revolution
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2. The Ruins of a Myth or a Myth in Ruins? : Freedom and Cohabitation in Central Europe
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3. Democracy in Ruins : The case of the Hungarian Parliament
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4. Itinerant Memory Places : The Baader-Meinhof-Wagen
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5. Edith Doesn't Live Here Anymore : A Story of Farnsworth House
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6. Comments on Comments : Fake Fragments, Fake Ruins, and Genuine Paper Ruination
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7. How We Remember and What We Forget : Art History and the Czech Avant-garde
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8. Anxious Geographies - Inhabited Traditions
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9. Terezin as Reverse Potemkin Ruin, in Five Movements and an Epilogue
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10. Desert Europa and the Sea of Ruins : The Post-Apocalyptic Imagination in Egon Bondy's Afghanistan
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11. History's Loose Ends : Reflections on the Structure of Velvet Revolutions
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