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)

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)

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)

Tracing the roots of the modern American University in German philosophy and in the work of British thinkers such as Newman and Arnold, Bill Readings argues that historically the integrity of the modern university has been linked to the nation-state, which it has served by promoting and protecting the idea of a national culture. However, now the nation-state is in decline, and ...(展开全部)

凯文•鲍尔斯 Kevin Powers 美国小说家、诗人，1980年生于弗吉尼亚州里士满，出身于蓝领家庭，父亲是工厂工人。17岁应召入伍，2004年2月至2005年3月在伊拉克摩苏尔和塔拉法尔服役。退伍后，就读于弗吉尼亚州立大学，获得本科学位后；在得克萨斯大学奥斯丁分校获得文科硕士，后来在该校米切纳中心担任诗歌研究员。2012年，出版第一部作品《黄鸟》（The Yellow Birds），获得了海明威奖、《卫报》首作奖，以及美国国家图书奖的最终入围书目。

凯文•鲍尔斯 Kevin Powers 美国小说家、诗人，1980年生于弗吉尼亚州里士满，出身于蓝领家庭，父亲是工厂工人。17岁应召入伍，2004年2月至2005年3月在伊拉克摩苏尔和塔拉法尔服役。退伍后，就读于弗吉尼亚州立大学，获得本科学位后；在得克萨斯大学奥斯丁分校获得文科硕士，后来在该校米切纳中心担任诗歌研究员。2012年，出版第一部作品《黄鸟》（The Yellow Birds），获得了海明威奖、《卫报》首作奖，以及美国国家图书奖的最终入围书目。

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)

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)

How have ruins become so valued in Western culture, and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials, Susan Stewart seeks to answer this question as she traces the appeal of ruins and ruins images, and the lessons that writers and artists have drawn from their haunti...(展开全部)