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Several contributors discuss ideas about ruins developed by philosophers such as Immanuel Kant, Georg Simmel, and Walter Benjamin. One contributor examines how W. G. Sebalds novel The Rings of Saturn betrays the ruins erased or forgotten in the Hegelian philosophy of history. Another analyzes the repressed specter of being bombed out of existence that underpins post-Second World War modernist architecture, especially Le Corbusiers plans for Paris. Still another compares the ways that formerly dominant white populations relate to urban-industrial ruins in Detroit and to colonial ruins in Namibia. Other topics include atomic ruins at a Nevada test site, the connection between the cinema and ruins, the various narratives that have accrued around the Inca ruin of Vilcashuamn, Tolstoys response in War and Peace to the destruction of Moscow in the fire of 1812, the Nazis obsession with imperial ruins, and the emergence in Mumbai of a new kinetic city on what some might consider the ruins of a modernist city. By focusing on the concept of ruin, this collection sheds new light on modernity and its vast ramifications and complexities.
Contributors. Kerstin Barndt, Jon Beasley-Murray, Russell A. Berman, Jonathan Bolton, Svetlana Boym, Amir Eshel, Julia Hell, Daniel Herwitz, Andreas Huyssen, Rahul Mehrotra, Johannes von Moltke, Vladimir Paperny, Helen Petrovsky, Todd Presner, Helmut Puff, Alexander Regier, Eric Rentschler, Lucia Saks, Andreas Schnle, Tatiana Smoliarova, George Steinmetz, Jonathan Veitch, Gustavo Verdesio, Anthony Vidler
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POLITICS, HISTORY, AND CULTURE
A series from the International Institute at the University of Michigan
SERIES EDITORS
George Steinmetz and Julia Adams
SERIES EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
| Fernando Coronil | Nancy Rose Hunt | Julie Skurski |
| Mamadou Diouf | Andreas Kalyvas | Margaret Somers |
| Michael Dutton | Webb Keane | Ann Laura Stoler |
| Geoff Eley | David Laitin | Katherine Verdery |
| Fatma Mge Gcek | Lydia Liu | Elizabeth Wingrove |
Sponsored by the International Institute at the University of Michigan and published by Duke University Press, this series is centered around cultural and historical studies of power, politics, and the statea field that cuts across the disciplines of history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and cultural studies. The focus on the relationship between state and culture refers both to a methodological approachthe study of politics and the state using culturalist methodsand a substantive one that treats signifying practices as an essential dimension of politics. The dialectic of politics, culture, and history figures prominently in all the books selected for the series.
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Julia Hell and Andreas Schnle
Duke University Press Durham and London 2010
2010 Duke University Press
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
Typeset in Minion Pro by Keystone Typesetting, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data appear on the last printed page of this book.
Duke University Press gratefully acknowledges support for the publication of this book from the Regents of the University of Michigan.
BOYM
. Model for The Monument to the Third International, November 1920
. Vladimir Tatlin, trying Letatlin (Moscow, 1932)
. Sketch for the set decoration of Chalice of Joy (194950)
. Vladimir Tatlin, White Jar and Potato (194851)
. Vladimir Tatlin, A Skull on the Open Book (194853)
. Model of Tatlins Tower
. Constantin Boym, Palace of the Soviets and Tatlins Tower (1996)
. Leonid Sokov, Moscow Yard
. Leonid Sokov, Watchtower: Self-portrait as a Soldier
. Leonid Sokov, Ur-Neo-Geo Tower
. Yuri Avvakumov, Perestroika Tower (1990)
. Ilya Kabakov, sketch for The Palace of the Projects (1999)
. Ilya Kabakov, sketch for The Palace of the Projects (1999)
. Svetlana Boym, Return Home, from Nostalgic Technologies
. Tatlins Letatlin and Nabokovs Butterfly from Hybrid Utopias (20036)
. Tatlins Letatlin and Nabokovs Butterfly from Hybrid Utopias (20036)
. Tatlins Letatlin and Nabokovs Butterfly from Hybrid Utopias (20036)
ESHEL
. Deserted, cemented-up houses in Haifas Arab quarter
. Igal Shtayim, Untitled
. Nava Semel, Levad (Alone)
. Facsimile of first page of Kluge, Der Luftangriff auf Halberstadt am 8. April 1945
HELL
. Gustave Dor, The New Zealander
. Adolf Hitler with the Italian king in Rome
. The Mosaic Room in Albert Speers Chancellery, Berlin
BEASLEY-MURRAY
. Vilcashuamn
. A portrait of Perus President Fernando Belande
PUFF
. Rubble model of Frankfurt (1946?)
. City models of Heilbronn (1960)
. Detail of the model of Heilbronn in ruins (1960)
. Detail of rubble model of Wrzburg (1989)
. Model of Bielefeld (1985)
BARNDT
. Bernd and Hilla Becher, Water Towers
. Power station, Duisburg North Landscape Park
. Slide through the wall of the ore bunker, Duisburg North Landscape Park
. Garden in the ruin of the Sintering bunker, Duisburg North Landscape Park
. Piazza Metallica, Duisburg North Landscape Park
. Works by Jrgen Matschie and Christina Glanz at Plessa power station
. Jrgen Matschie, Flooding and Dune, at Plessa power station
. Exhibition terraces with a view of a former strip mine
STEINMETZ
. Ballroom, Book-Cadillac Hotel, Detroit
. Cathedral of Time installation, Old Central Michigan Train Station, Detroit
. Abandoned ironworks, Vlkingen, Germany
. Aerial view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, under construction
. Interior facade of the Anhalter Railway Station, Berlin
. Ruins of German colonial fortress at Heusis, Namibia
. Fortress at Naiams
. Ruins of the fortress at Naiams
. Partially restored ruins of the fortress at Naiams
. Ruins of the German colonial army Eros lookout post at Au||gei|gas, Namibia
. Ruins of the former German colonial police post at Hohenfels, Namibia
. Ruins of the German prisoner of war camp at Aus, Namibia (1920)
. Ruins of the German prisoner of war camp at Aus, Namibia, present day
. Aerial view of Heidelberg Street area, Detroit (2002)
VEITCH
. Decommissioned Trident missile silo, Tucson
. Twisted railroad trestle after a structural effects test, Frenchmans Flat, Nevada Test Site
. Sedan Crater, Nevada Test Site
. Viewing platform overlooking Sedan Crater, Nevada Test Site
. Pantry from a test house used in Operation Cue, Nevada Test Site
. Darling Family mannequins after Operation Cue, Nevada Test Site
SMOLIAROVA
. Mikhail Filippov, Ruins of Paradise (2000)
. Derzhavins House at Zvanka (1810)
MOLTKE
. Still from The Demolition of a Wall
. Still from Die Mrder sind unter uns
. Still from Germania Anno Zero
. Still from The Third Man
. Still from Orphe
. Still from A Foreign Affair
. Still from credits for GoldenEye
. Still from GoldenEye
. Still from Good-Bye Lenin!
. Still from Terminator II
. Still from Der Himmel ber Berlin
. Still from Naqoyqatsi
. Still from Lektionen in Finsternis
. Still from Nostalghia
RENTSCHLER
. Composite image from A Foreign Affair
. Still from Die Mrder sind unter uns
. Still from Die Mrder sind unter uns
PETROVSKY
.5. Boris Mikhailov, The Unfinished Dissertation
Ruins may signify the end of the old, or the beginning of something new. In our case, a conversation about ruins in the imperial gardens of Catherine the Great and the remnants of the gigantic steel mills of the Saar and Alsace-Lorraine regions led to a series of seminars, workshops, and finally an interdisciplinary conference exploring the concept of the ruins of modernity. This volume brings to an end our collaborative project, but not the obsession with ruins signifiers of civilization and barbarism, creativity and destruction. Our initial ideas took shape before 9/11, and we had no inkling, then, that during this project we would witness so much ruination, from contemporary New York, New Orleans, and Baghdad to ancient Balbek.
The project went through several phases, and many people enthusiastically contributed ideas and time. We started with a symposium at which Andreas Huyssen spoke about the British-German author W. G. Sebald, and Thomas Lahusen presented his film about the post-Soviet ruins of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Komsomolsk Mon Amour: A City after Socialism.
We then taught an interdisciplinary graduate seminar, funded by the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies at the University of Michigan, which enabled us to invite speakersincluding Kerstin Barndt, Russell A. Berman, Meilee Bridges, Geoff Eley, Bruce Frier, Peter Fritzsche, Kader Konuk, Artemis Leontis, Kirsten Olds, Helmut Puff, Gustavo Verdesio, and Rebecca Zurierwho all delivered stimulating talks that helped us advance our thoughts.
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