Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects explores monuments as political, psychical, social and mystical objects. Incorporating autoethnography, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, postcolonialism, and queer ecology, Houlton argues for a radical, interdisciplinary approach to our monument culture.
Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects explores monuments as political, psychical, social and mystical objects. Incorporating autoethnography, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, postcolonialism, and queer ecology, Houlton argues for a radical, interdisciplinary approach to our monument culture.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Thomas Houlton is an academic, writer, and editor based in York, UK. Educated at the University of Cambridge and New York University, he gained his PhD from the University of Sussex, where he also worked at the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence. He has had both critical and creative writing published in journals and magazines.
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List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: 'Face the Dark Confusion': Experiencing Monuments Part I. The Monument: Histories and Theories 1 The Monument and the Arts of Memory 2 Theorising the Monument Part II. The Monument and Psychoanalysis 3 The Monument, the Holocaust, and the Crypt: Rachel Whiteread, Jacques Derrida, and Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok's Cryptonymy 4 D.W. Winnicott and the Destruction of the Monument 5 Countermonuments, Transitional Objects, and the Fear of Breakdown Part III. Monuments, Colonialism, and Imperial Spaces 6 Monuments and Colonial Domination 7 Cecil Rhodes, Oriel College, and the Will to Change 8 Decolonising Edward Colston in Bristol: The Contrapuntal Monument Part IV: Queer Monuments 9 LGBTQIA+ Monuments, Sacred Heterotopias, and the Fantasy of Purity 10 Stonewall, Political Visibility, and the Pressures of LGBTQIA+ Memorialisation 11 Paranoid Monuments, Eve Sedgwick, and Queer Remembrance: (Or, You Probably Think This Monument Is About You) 12 The Monument and Queer Ecology Epilogue: Mesolithic Monuments, ecosystemic collapse, and Hope in the Time of Coronavirus Index
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: 'Face the Dark Confusion': Experiencing Monuments
Part I. The Monument: Histories and Theories
1 The Monument and the Arts of Memory
2 Theorising the Monument
Part II. The Monument and Psychoanalysis
3 The Monument, the Holocaust, and the Crypt: Rachel Whiteread, Jacques Derrida, and Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok's Cryptonymy
4 D.W. Winnicott and the Destruction of the Monument
5 Countermonuments, Transitional Objects, and the Fear of Breakdown
Part III. Monuments, Colonialism, and Imperial Spaces
6 Monuments and Colonial Domination
7 Cecil Rhodes, Oriel College, and the Will to Change
8 Decolonising Edward Colston in Bristol: The Contrapuntal Monument
Part IV: Queer Monuments
9 LGBTQIA+ Monuments, Sacred Heterotopias, and the Fantasy of Purity
10 Stonewall, Political Visibility, and the Pressures of LGBTQIA+ Memorialisation
11 Paranoid Monuments, Eve Sedgwick, and Queer Remembrance: (Or, You Probably Think This Monument Is About You)
12 The Monument and Queer Ecology
Epilogue: Mesolithic Monuments, ecosystemic collapse, and Hope in the Time of Coronavirus
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: 'Face the Dark Confusion': Experiencing Monuments Part I. The Monument: Histories and Theories 1 The Monument and the Arts of Memory 2 Theorising the Monument Part II. The Monument and Psychoanalysis 3 The Monument, the Holocaust, and the Crypt: Rachel Whiteread, Jacques Derrida, and Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok's Cryptonymy 4 D.W. Winnicott and the Destruction of the Monument 5 Countermonuments, Transitional Objects, and the Fear of Breakdown Part III. Monuments, Colonialism, and Imperial Spaces 6 Monuments and Colonial Domination 7 Cecil Rhodes, Oriel College, and the Will to Change 8 Decolonising Edward Colston in Bristol: The Contrapuntal Monument Part IV: Queer Monuments 9 LGBTQIA+ Monuments, Sacred Heterotopias, and the Fantasy of Purity 10 Stonewall, Political Visibility, and the Pressures of LGBTQIA+ Memorialisation 11 Paranoid Monuments, Eve Sedgwick, and Queer Remembrance: (Or, You Probably Think This Monument Is About You) 12 The Monument and Queer Ecology Epilogue: Mesolithic Monuments, ecosystemic collapse, and Hope in the Time of Coronavirus Index
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: 'Face the Dark Confusion': Experiencing Monuments
Part I. The Monument: Histories and Theories
1 The Monument and the Arts of Memory
2 Theorising the Monument
Part II. The Monument and Psychoanalysis
3 The Monument, the Holocaust, and the Crypt: Rachel Whiteread, Jacques Derrida, and Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok's Cryptonymy
4 D.W. Winnicott and the Destruction of the Monument
5 Countermonuments, Transitional Objects, and the Fear of Breakdown
Part III. Monuments, Colonialism, and Imperial Spaces
6 Monuments and Colonial Domination
7 Cecil Rhodes, Oriel College, and the Will to Change
8 Decolonising Edward Colston in Bristol: The Contrapuntal Monument
Part IV: Queer Monuments
9 LGBTQIA+ Monuments, Sacred Heterotopias, and the Fantasy of Purity
10 Stonewall, Political Visibility, and the Pressures of LGBTQIA+ Memorialisation
11 Paranoid Monuments, Eve Sedgwick, and Queer Remembrance: (Or, You Probably Think This Monument Is About You)
12 The Monument and Queer Ecology
Epilogue: Mesolithic Monuments, ecosystemic collapse, and Hope in the Time of Coronavirus
Index
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