Waste-Site Stories

Brian Neville is an independent translator and editor. He is coeditor, with Johanne Villeneuve, of La Mémoire des déchets: Essais sur la culture et la valeur du passé. Johanne Villeneuve is Professor in the Département d'études littéraires at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where she teaches literature and film studies.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: In Lieu of WasteBrian Neville and Johanne Villeneuve Part I Waste 1. Objects from the PastDavid Gross 2. Waste into Heritage: Remarks on Materials in the Arts, on Memories and the MuseumSusanne Hauser 3. Art and Archive: The Dissimulation MuseumChristine Bernier 4. Beyond the ArchiveAleida Assmann 5. The Acculturation of WasteWalter Moser 6. Agencies of Cultural Feedback: The Infrastructure ofMemoryWolfgang Ernst 7. Being Authentic: The Ambition to RecycleHans Ulrich Gumbrecht Part II Site 8. Mould, Rubble, and the Validation of the Fragment in the Discourse of the PastStephen Bann 9. Parthenon, Nashville: From the Site of History to the Sight of MemoryÉric Méchoulan 10. Taking Lanterns for Bladders: Symbolic and Material Appropriation in the PostmodernWlad Godzich 11. History's Mortal RemainsValeria Wagner 12. Photo-ResemblanceCharles Grivel 13. Utopian Legacies: Memory, Mediation, CinemaJohanne Villeneuve 14. SCrypt: Memory BuildingGordon Bleach Contributors Index

"The book deals with the construction of significance and the negative relation of a system to its own (unthought) foundation. The topic is as important in theoretical terms as it is in practical terms, and it leads us to question the opposition between such conventional frames of reference. This book intersects with so many other established disciplines—literary criticism, anthropology, art history, cultural studies, philosophy—and intervenes not just thematically but in their very construction as disciplines." — Roy Sellars, University of Southern Denmark, Kolding"Waste-Site Stories adds up to a tremendously useful compendium that will give scholars and students an easy, instantaneous footing in the research area of memory, loss, socially-engineered oblivion, the culture of wastefulness and collecting whose functioning this book helps us understand." — Didier Maleuvre, author of Museum Memories: History, Technology, Art