Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of the past to "ruination" as the processes through which imperial power occupies the present. Ann Laura Stoler's introduction is a manifesto, a compelling call for postcolonial studies to expand its analytical scope to address the toxic but less perceptible corrosions and violent accruals of colonial aftermaths, a...(展开全部)

On the Museum's Ruins presents Douglas Crimp's criticism of contemporary art, its institutions, and its politics alongside photographic works by the artist Louise Lawler to create a collaborative project that is itself an example of postmodern practice at its most provocative. Crimp elaborates the new paradigm of postmodernism through analyses of art practices broadly conceived...(展开全部)

Between 1991 and 2015, Josef Koudelka completed an epic journey across twenty countries bordering the Mediterranean, stopping at over 200 Greek and Roman archaeological sites, relentlessly researching the beauty of the ancient world. Before the Magnum photographer, nobody had attempted to make such a comprehensive photographic record of these artefacts with so much persistence ...(展开全部)

This book takes an affectionate journey around some of the atmospheric and occasionally mysterious ruins and follies that can be found in East Anglia. It might be a building that has a particular hi

What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century’s most important philosopher? Martin Heidegger’s sympathies for the conservative revolution and National Socialism have long been well known. As the rector of the University of Freiburg in the early 1930s, he worked hard to reshape the university in...(展开全部)

Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather, looking at ruins, writing about them, and representing them, are acts framed by a long tradition. This unique interdisciplinary collection traces discourses about and representations of ruins from a r...(展开全部)

Updated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field.

Updated and expanded throughtout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field.

玛丽·路易斯·普拉特 Mary Louise Pratt，纽约大学西葡语言文学教授，曾任斯坦福大学奥利芙·H.帕尔默人文学教授。早年在多伦多大学获得现代语言文学学士学位，在伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳分校获得语言学硕士学位，1975年在斯坦福大学获得比较文学博士学位。研究兴趣广泛，涉及拉丁美洲文学与社会、比较文学、 性别研究、殖民主义与帝国主义文化研究等诸多领域。2003年任现代语言协会主席。

玛丽·路易斯·普拉特 Mary Louise Pratt，纽约大学西葡语言文学教授，曾任斯坦福大学奥利芙·H.帕尔默人文学教授。早年在多伦多大学获得现代语言文学学士学位，在伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳分校获得语言学硕士学位，1975年在斯坦福大学获得比较文学博士学位。研究兴趣广泛，涉及拉丁美洲文学与社会、比较文学、 性别研究、殖民主义与帝国主义文化研究等诸多领域。2003年任现代语言协会主席。