1st Edition
The Political Afterlife of Sites of Monumental Destruction Reconstructing Affect in Mostar and New York
By Andrea Connor
Copyright 2017
216 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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What happens when a monumental thing is physically destroyed? Is its "life" as a socially significant, presencing thing at an end? Or might the process of destruction work to enhance its symbolic force, mediating work and presencing power? In this book Andrea Connor traces the ‘afterlife’ of two exemplary examples of monumental destruction and their re-investment with cultural value and... Read more
Preface Monumental Affect
Chapter 1 Affecting Presence: Memory, Agency and the Power of Monumental Things
Chapter 2 Urbicide and the Destruction of "Bridge-ness" in Mostar
Chapter 3 Afterlife: Anchoring Affect/Reconstructing "Bridge-ness" In Mostar
Chapter 4 Skyscraper Dreaming: Monumentality, Modernity and The Destruction the Twin Towers
Chapter 5 Filling the Void: Embodying the Uncanny Space of Ground Zero.
Chapter 6 Faith in Steel: Authenticity, Steel Beams and the Fragmented Afterlife of the Twin Towers
Conclusion Affecting Afterlives
List of references
Biography
Andrea Connor teaches at the University of Technology, Sydney and works at the City of Sydney, Australia.
