Cultures of Obsolescence

History, Materiality, and the Digital Age
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-47089-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 4188 g

Obsolescence is fundamental to the experience of modernity, not simply one dimension of an economic system. The contributors to this book investigate obsolescence as a historical phenomenon, an aesthetic practice, and an affective mode.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tischleder, B.

Wasserman, S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Thinking Out of Sync: A Theory of Obsolescence; Babette B. Tischleder and Sarah Wasserman Prelude: The Obsolescence of the Human; Bill Brown PART I: HISTORY 1. Rags, Bones, and Plastic Bags: Obsolescence, Trash, and American Consumer Culture; Susan Strasser 2. Architectures of Obsolescence: Lessons for History; Daniel M. Abramson PART II: MEDIA AND THE DIGITAL AGE 3. Proliferation and Obsolescence of the Historical Record in the Digital Era; John Durham Peters 4. Replacement, Displacement, and Obsolescence in the Digital Age; William Uricchio 5. The Future History of the Book: Time, Attention, Convention; Kathleen Fitzpatrick 6. The Pleasures of Paper: Tethering Literature to Obsolete Material Forms; Alexander Starre PART III: AESTHETICS 7. The Horror of Details: Obsolescence and Annihilation in Miyako Ishiuchi's Photography of Atomic Bomb Artifacts; Jani Scandura 8. The Poetics of Patination in William Gibson; Hanjo Berressem 9. Untimely: Obsolescence, Late Modernism, and the View Out of Giovanni's Room; MaryAnn Snyder-Körber

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel M. Abramson, Tufts University, USA
Hanjo Berressem, University of Cologne, Germany
Bill Brown, University of Chicago, USA
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, New York University, USA
John Durham Peters, University of Iowa, USA
Jani Scandura, University of Minnesota, USA
MaryAnn Snyder-Körber, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany
Alexander Starre, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Susan Strasser, University of Delaware, Germany
William Uricchio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA