Waste-Site Stories

Description

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.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: In Lieu of Waste
Brian Neville and Johanne Villeneuve

Part I Waste

1. Objects from the Past
David Gross

2. Waste into Heritage: Remarks on Materials in the Arts, on Memories and the Museum
Susanne Hauser

3. Art and Archive: The Dissimulation Museum
Christine Bernier

4. Beyond the Archive
Aleida Assmann

5. The Acculturation of Waste
Walter Moser

6. Agencies of Cultural Feedback: The Infrastructure ofMemory
Wolfgang Ernst

7. Being Authentic: The Ambition to Recycle
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Part II Site

8. Mould, Rubble, and the Validation of the Fragment in the Discourse of the Past
Stephen Bann

9. Parthenon, Nashville: From the Site of History to the Sight of Memory
Éric Méchoulan

10. Taking Lanterns for Bladders: Symbolic and Material Appropriation in the Postmodern
Wlad Godzich

11. History's Mortal Remains
Valeria Wagner

12. Photo-Resemblance
Charles Grivel

13. Utopian Legacies: Memory, Mediation, Cinema
Johanne Villeneuve

14. ^SCrypt: Memory Building
Gordon Bleach

Contributors

Index

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Esthétique et philosophie de l'art

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791488782
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Waste-Site Stories

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Edited by Brian Neville and Johanne Villeneuve

Waste-Site Stories

t h e r e c y c l i n g o f m e m o r y

s t a t e u n i v e r s i t y o f n e w y o r k p r e s s

Photographs by Stephen Bann and Bob Chaplin by kind permission.

Eduardo Paolozzi’sLost Magic Kingdoms and Six Paper Moons from Nahuatlcopyright The British Museum.

The work of Gordon Bleach © is part of the private collection of Dr. Gayle Zachmann, 2801 NW 23rd Blvd., Apt. E39, Gainesville, Florida 32605.

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Waste-site stories : the recycling of memory / edited by Brian Neville and Johanne Villeneuve. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-5341-3 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7914-5342-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Civilization, Modern—1950– 2. Memory—Social aspects. 3. Recycling (Waste, etc.)— Psychological aspects. 4. Refuse and refuse disposal—Psychological aspects. 5. Collectors and collecting—Psychological aspects. 6. Historic sites—Social aspects. 7. Historic preservation— Social aspects. 8. Material culture. 9. Postmodernism. I. Neville, Brian, 1966– II. Villeneuve, Johanne, 1960–

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Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: In Lieu of Waste Brian Neville and Johanne Villeneuve

Part I Waste 1Objects from the Past David Gross 2Remarks on MaterialsWaste into Heritage: in the Arts, on Memories and the Museum Susanne Hauser 3Dissimulation MuseumArchive: The Art and Christine Bernier 4Beyond the Archive Aleida Assmann 5of WasteThe Acculturation Walter Moser 6Agencies of Cultural Feedback: The Infrastructure of Memory Wolfgang Ernst

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Being Authentic: The Ambition to Recycle Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Part II Site 8the Validation Mould, Rubble, and of the Fragment in the Discourse of the Past Stephen Bann 9Parthenon, Nashville: From the Site of History to the Sight of Memory Éric Méchoulan 10Symbolic andTaking Lanterns for Bladders: Material Appropriation in the Postmodern Wlad Godzich 11History’s Mortal Remains Valeria Wagner 12Photo-Resemblance Charles Grivel 13Utopian Legacies: Memory, Mediation, Cinema Johanne Villeneuve S 14crypt: Memory Building Gordon Bleach Contributors Index

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“Janus Stone,” photo by Stephen Bann “The Belvedere at Waldershare,” photo by Bob Chaplin “Oil lamp made from an electric bulb and tin can,” by Eduardo Paolozzi s “Building Walk 2,” Gordon Bleach, crypt s “Spurious Artifact 22,” Gordon Bleach, crypt s “Spurious Artifact 5,” Gordon Bleach, crypt s “Spurious Artifact 24d,” Gordon Bleach, crypt s “Spurious Artifact 6,” Gordon Bleach, crypt

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