Ruin memories: materiality, aesthetics and the archaeology of the recent past

"Since the 19th century, mass-production, consumerism and cycles of material replacement have accelerated; increasingly larger amounts of things are increasingly rapidly victimized and made redundant. At the same time processes of destruction have immensely intensified, although largely overloo...

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Other Authors: Olsen, Bjørnar 1958- (Editor), þóra Pétursdóttir (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London [u.a.] Routledge 2014
Edition:1. publ.
Series:Archaeological orientations
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Summary:"Since the 19th century, mass-production, consumerism and cycles of material replacement have accelerated; increasingly larger amounts of things are increasingly rapidly victimized and made redundant. At the same time processes of destruction have immensely intensified, although largely overlooked when compared to the research and social significance devoted to consumption and production. The outcome is a ruin landscape of derelict factories, closed shopping malls, overgrown bunkers and redundant mining towns; a ghostly world of decaying modern debris normally left out of academic concerns and conventional histories. The archaeology of the recent or contemporary past has grown fast during the last decade. This development has been concurrent with a broader popular, artistic and scholarly interest in modern ruins in general.
Item Description:"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"...Title page verso. - Includes bibliographical references
Physical Description:XVIII, 492 S. zahlr. Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:9780415523622