THE PROMISE OF A RUIN

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. PART I CATASTROPHE, UTOPIA, AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF DESTRUCTION
7. AUTHENTIC RUINS 17
8. AIR WAR AND ARCHITECTURE 29
9. MODERNISM AND DESTRUCTION IN ARCHITECTURE 41
10. RUINS OF THE AVANT-GARDE 58
11. PART II RUINS AND THE DEMOCRATIC POLITY
12. MODERNITY AS A ‘‘DESTROYED ANTHILL’’ 89
13. DEMOCRATIC DESTRUCTION 104
14. THE RUINS OF A REPUBLIC 118
15. LAYERED TIME 133
16. CITIES, CITIZENSHIP, AND OTHER JOBURG STORIES 151
17. PART III EMPIRES, RUINS, AND THEIR STORIES
18. IMPERIAL RUIN GAZERS, OR WHY DID SCIPIO WEEP? 169
19. HEGEL’S PHILOSOPHY OF WORLD HISTORY VIA SEBALD’S IMAGINARY OF RUINS 193
20. VILCASHUAMÁN 212
21. THE MONUMENT IN RUINS 232
22. SIMULTANEOUS MODERNITY 244
23. PART IV (POST)RUINSCAPES
24. RUINS AS MODELS 253
25. ‘‘MEMORY TRACES OF AN ABANDONED SET OF FUTURES’’ 270
26. COLONIAL MELANCHOLY AND FORDIST NOSTALGIA 294
27. DR. STRANGELOVE’S CABINET OF WONDER 321
28. INVISIBLE AT A GLANCE 339
29. PART V RUIN GAZING
30. FOUNDATIONAL RUINS 357
31. THE PROMISE OF A RUIN 375
32. RUIN CINEMA 395
33. THE PLACE OF RUBBLE IN THE TRÜMMERFILM 418
34. LOST IN TIME 439
35. BIBLIOGRAPHY 459
36. CONTRIBUTORS 489
37. INDEX 493