The aesthetics of decay : nothingness, nostalgia, and the absence of reason / Dylan Trigg.
By: Trigg, Dylan
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Series: New studies in aesthetics, v. 37. Publisher: New York : Peter Lang, c2006Description: xxix, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0820486469 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780820486468.Subject(s): Reason | Memory | Aesthetics | Civilization -- ForecastingDDC classification: 190
Contents:
Tarrying with the nothing -- Silence, violence, and nothingness -- An uncanny memory -- The specter of exile -- Dark night of the soul -- An impossible nostalgia -- The decline of postmodernism? -- The revolt of reason -- A short history of decay -- An uncanny place: modern ruins -- The post-industrial sublime -- The phenomenology of the alleyway -- Aesthetic revulsion: staircases and rust -- Transgressing place: urban exploration -- Space and center: ruins as home -- Memories in ruin.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-259) and index.
Tarrying with the nothing -- Silence, violence, and nothingness -- An uncanny memory -- The specter of exile -- Dark night of the soul -- An impossible nostalgia -- The decline of postmodernism? -- The revolt of reason -- A short history of decay -- An uncanny place: modern ruins -- The post-industrial sublime -- The phenomenology of the alleyway -- Aesthetic revulsion: staircases and rust -- Transgressing place: urban exploration -- Space and center: ruins as home -- Memories in ruin.
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