Buch(elektronisch)#12017
The political afterlife of sites of monumental destruction: reconstructing affect in Mostar and New York
In: Interventions
Preface : monumental affect -- Affecting presence : memory, agency and the power of monumental things -- Urbicide and the destruction of "bridge-ness" in Mostar -- Afterlife : anchoring affect/reconstructing "bridge-ness" in Mostar -- Skyscraper dreaming : monumentality, modernity and the destruction the Twin Towers -- Filling the void : embodying the uncanny space of Ground Zero -- Faith in steel : authenticity, steel beams and the fragmented afterlife of the Twin Towers -- Conclusion : affecting afterlives.