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Waste-Site Stories : The Recycling of Memory / edited by Brian Neville and Johanne Villeneuve.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postmodernism.
- Material culture.
- Historic preservation--Social aspects.
- Historic preservation.
- Historic sites--Social aspects.
- Historic sites.
- Collectors and collecting--Psychological aspects.
- Collectors and collecting.
- Refuse and refuse disposal--Psychological aspects.
- Refuse and refuse disposal.
- Recycling (Waste, etc.)--Psychological aspects.
- Recycling (Waste, etc.).
- Memory--Social aspects.
- Memory.
- Civilization, Modern--1950-.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 259 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- Ours is a wasteful society, consumed with care for its remains, according to the contributors of Waste-Site Stories. Here scholars from around the world probe current notions of waste and the ways in which remains of different kinds recover value in the act of recollection and recycling. In the wake of destructive experiences that continue to trouble memory, there is something compelling about today's theoretical and artistic interest in waste and recycling. The two terms provide a purchase on changing conditions of cultural memory, on technological development and its sometimes toxic ecological and social fallout, and on the legacy of personal and historical trauma. They suggest new resources for the stories of our engagement with the things of the past and the sites where traces of history survive.
- Contents:
- Objects from the past / David Gross
- Waste into heritage: remarks on materials in the arts, on memories and the museum / Susanne Hauser
- Art and archive: the dissimulation museum / Christine Bernier
- Beyond the archive / Aleida Assmann
- The acculturation of waste / Walter Moser
- Agencies of cultural feedback: the infrastructure of memory / Wolfgang Ernst
- Being authentic: the ambition to recycle / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
- Mould, rubble, and the validation of the fragment in the discourse of the past / Stephen Bann
- Parthenon, Nashville: from the site of history to the sight of memory / Éric Méchoulan
- Taking lanterns for bladders: symbolic and material appropriation in the postmodern / Wlad Godzich
- History's mortal remains / Valeria Wagner
- Photo-resemblance / Charles Grivel
- Utopian legacies: memory, mediation, cinema / Johanne Villeneuve
- (s)Crypt: memory building / Gordon Bleach.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780791488782
- 0791488780
- 9780585471013
- 0585471010
- OCLC:
- 53117893
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