Modern Ruins: Revealing the Other Face of Things
Author(s): Bjornar J Olsen
Year: 2013
Summary
Modern ruins hold an ambiguous position in both academic and public discourse. By blurring established cultural categories of past and present, purity and dirt, waste and heritage, they become matter out of place and out of time. In this paper I draw attention to another source for this ambiguity, at the same time disturbing and attracting, and which is argued constitutes a crucial aspect of their ruin value: the manifestation of things in their released otherness.
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Modern Ruins: Revealing the Other Face of Things. Bjornar J Olsen. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, England, U.K. 2013 ( tDAR id: 428616)
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Keywords
General
modern ruins
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releasement
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Things
Geographic Keywords
Norway
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Western Europe
Temporal Keywords
Modern
Spatial Coverage
min long: 4.883; min lat: 57.988 ; max long: 31.074; max lat: 71.138 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 560