DWELLING WITHIN: THE INHABITED RUINS OF HISTORY
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Auteurs : Dariusz GafijczukSource :
- History and Theory [ 0018-2656 ] ; 2013-05.
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- Alain badiou, Alexander regier, Architectural edifices, August strindberg, Authentic ruins, California press, Cambridge university press, Chicago press, Common sense, Culture society, Dariusz, Dariusz gafijczuk, David frisby, Different ways, Edmund burke, Faceless reality, Fair trade palace, First time, Foundational ruins, Frank ankersmit, Full force, Gafijczuk, Georg, Georg simmel, Goethe, Good part, Historical awareness, Historical consciousness, Historical perception, Historical spirit, Historical time, Historical understanding, Human beings, Ibid, Johann wolfgang, Lisbon, Lisbon earthquake, Mikael levin, Modern culture, Modern identity, Modern life, Modern ruins, Mysterious harmony, Other essays, Other words, Overall image, Physical presence, Present form, Roman elegies, Ruin, Same time, Scientific fact, Several dimensions, Sigmund freud, Simmel, Singular plural, Social science, Spectral evidence, Stanford university press, Straw mattresses, Sublime, Temporal, Temporal sequence, Temporality, Transl, Ulrich baer, Untimely meditations, Various dimensions, Visual evidence, Walter benjamin, Wilhelm dilthey, William whyte, Zarte empirie.
Abstract
Addressing the recent call to rethink history as a form of presence, the essay works toward a recovery of a space in which such presence of history is encoded. I argue that history as a form of active perception is akin to virtual witnessing of the past in the moment of our encounter with historical artifacts, be they texts, photographs, or buildings. To this end, I engage with the conceptual and material aspects of historical perception, deriving a model of history as “inhabited ruins,” the way it emerges together with historical consciousness and finds an especially dynamic expression in Georg Simmel's philosophy of culture. Throughout, I work with the notion of distance and trans‐dimensional presence as the forces that shape and reshape historical awareness. Ruins, intimately connected to the modern historical imagination, are approached not as sites of commemoration or nostalgia, but as spaces of active exchange between presence and disappearance. As such, they are taken to be the models for the transitive character of history itself, blurring the division between perception and thought. In other words, ruins are taken as structures that evoke and summon the past to an encounter with contemporary reality—a type of co‐appearance that opens the possibility of virtually witnessing the past. I conclude that the logic of “inhabited ruins” constitutes the event‐horizon of modern identity, always placing history right at the threshold of fragmentation.
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I argue that history as a form of active perception is akin to <i>virtual witnessing</i> of the past in the moment of our encounter with historical artifacts, be they texts, photographs, or buildings.</p><p>To this end, I engage with the conceptual and material aspects of historical perception, deriving a model of history as “inhabited ruins,” the way it emerges together with historical consciousness and finds an especially dynamic expression in Georg Simmel's philosophy of culture. Throughout, I work with the notion of distance and trans‐dimensional presence as the forces that shape and reshape historical awareness.</p><p>Ruins, intimately connected to the modern historical imagination, are approached not as sites of commemoration or nostalgia, but as spaces of active exchange between presence and disappearance. As such, they are taken to be the models for the transitive character of history itself, blurring the division between perception and thought. In other words, ruins are taken as structures that evoke and summon the past to an encounter with contemporary reality—a type of co‐appearance that opens the possibility of virtually witnessing the past. I conclude that the logic of “inhabited ruins” constitutes the event‐horizon of modern identity, always placing history right at the <i>threshold of fragmentation</i>.</p></abstract></abstractGroup></contentMeta><noteGroup><note xml:id="fn1"><p>I would like to express my gratitude for the generous support received from the British Academy and the Royal Society through the Newton International Fellowship, during which most of the research for this paper was carried out. Many thanks also go to colleagues and friends for their support and input, especially to Paolo Palladino, who early on realized this was but one part of a larger project, and to Dean Weston as well as Jen Tarr, both of whom helped me regain my voice.</p></note></noteGroup></header></component></istex:document></istex:metadataXml><mods version="3.6"><titleInfo lang="en"><title>DWELLING WITHIN: THE INHABITED RUINS OF HISTORY</title></titleInfo><titleInfo type="alternative" contentType="CDATA" lang="en"><title>DWELLING WITHIN: THE INHABITED RUINS OF HISTORY1</title></titleInfo><name type="personal"><namePart type="given">DARIUSZ</namePart><namePart type="family">GAFIJCZUK</namePart><affiliation>University College London</affiliation><role><roleTerm type="text">author</roleTerm></role></name><typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource><genre type="article" displayLabel="article" authority="ISTEX" authorityURI="https://content-type.data.istex.fr" valueURI="https://content-type.data.istex.fr/ark:/67375/XTP-6N5SZHKN-D">article</genre><originInfo><publisher>Blackwell Publishing Inc</publisher><place><placeTerm type="text">Malden, USA</placeTerm></place><dateIssued encoding="w3cdtf">2013-05</dateIssued><copyrightDate encoding="w3cdtf">2013</copyrightDate></originInfo><language><languageTerm type="code" authority="rfc3066">en</languageTerm><languageTerm type="code" authority="iso639-2b">eng</languageTerm></language><physicalDescription><extent unit="references">9</extent><extent unit="linksCrossRef">2</extent></physicalDescription><abstract lang="en">Addressing the recent call to rethink history as a form of presence, the essay works toward a recovery of a space in which such presence of history is encoded. 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In other words, ruins are taken as structures that evoke and summon the past to an encounter with contemporary reality—a type of co‐appearance that opens the possibility of virtually witnessing the past. I conclude that the logic of “inhabited ruins” constitutes the event‐horizon of modern identity, always placing history right at the threshold of fragmentation.</abstract><note type="content">*I would like to express my gratitude for the generous support received from the British Academy and the Royal Society through the Newton International Fellowship, during which most of the research for this paper was carried out. 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