Julia Adams

Ruins of Modernity

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction / Julia Hell and Andreas Schonle Part I. Catastrophe, Utopia, and the Architecture of Destruction 1. Authentic Ruins: Products of Modernity / Andreas Huyssen 2. Air War and Architecture / Anthony Vidler 3. Modernism and Destruction in Architecture / Vladimir Paperny 4. Ruins of the Avant-Garde: From Tatlins Tower to the Paper Architecture / Svetlana Boym Part II. Ruins and the Democratic Polity 5. Modernity as a Destroyed Anthill: Tolstoy on History and the Aesthetics of Ruins / Andreas Schonle 6. Democratic Destruction: Ruins and Emancipation in the American Tradition / Russell A. Berman 7. The Ruins of a Republic: Czech Modernism after Munich, 1938-39 / Jonathan Bolton 8. Layered Time: Ruins as Shattered Post, Ruins as Hope in Israeli and German Landscapes and Literatures / Amir Eshel 9. Cities, Citizenship and Other Jo burg Stories / Lucia Saks Part III. Empires, Ruins, and Their Stories 10. Imperial Ruin Gazers, or Why did Scipio Weep? / Julia Hell 11. Hegels Philosophy of World History via Sebalds Imaginary of Ruins: A Contrapuntal Critique of the New Space of Modernity / Todd Samuel Presner 12. Vilcashuaman: Telling Stories in Ruins / Jon Beasley-Murray 13. The Monument in Ruins / Daniel Herwitz 14. Simultaneous Modernity: Negotiations and Resistances in Urban India / Rahul Mehrotra Part IV. (Post-)Ruinscapes 15. Ruins as Models: Displaying Destruction 16. Memory Traces of an Abandoned Set of Futures: Industrial Ruins in the Postindustrial Landscapes of Germany / Kerstin Barndt 17. Colonial Melancholy and Fordist Nostalgia: The Ruinscapes of Namibia and Detroit / George Steinmetz 18. Dr. Strangeloves Cabinet of Wonder: Sifting through the Atomic Ruins at the Nevada Test Site / Jonathan Veitich 19. Invisible at a Glance: Indigenous Cultures of the Past, Ruins, Archaeological Sites, and Our Regimes of Visibility / Gustavo Verdesio Part V. Ruin Gazing 20. Foundational Ruins: The Lisbon Earthquake and the Sublime / Alexander Regier 21. The Promise of a Ruin: Gavrila Derzhavins Archaic Modernity / Tatiana Smoliarova 22. Ruin Cinema / Johannes von Moltke 23. The Place of Rubble in the Trummerfilm / Eric Rentschler 24. Lost in Time: Boris Mikhailov and his Study of the Soviet / Helen Petrovksy Bibliography Contributors Index