Full Description
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.
Contents
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
