The Future of the Past
Title | The Future of the Past PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Stille |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | 374 |
Release | 2003-04-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1466817097 |
An engrossing look at the cultural consequences of technological change and globalization Space radar, infrared photography, carbon dating, DNA analysis, microfilm, digital data bases-we have better technology than ever for studying and preserving the past. And yet the by-products of technology threaten to destroy--in one or two generations--monuments, works of art, and ways of life that have survived thousands of years of hardship and war. This paradox is central to our age. We use the Internet to access and assess infinite amounts of information--but understand less and less of its historical context. Globalization may eventually benefit countries around the world; it will also, almost certainly, lead to the disappearance of hundreds of regional dialects, languages, and whole societies. In The Future of the Past, Alexander Stille takes us on a tour of the past as it exists today and weighs its prospects for tomorrow, from China to Somalia to Washington, D.C. Through incisive portraits of their protagonists, he describes high-tech struggles to save the Great Sphinx and the Ganges; efforts to preserve Latin within the Vatican; the digital glut inside the National Archives, which may have lost more information in the information age than ever before; an oral culture threatened by a "new" technology: writing itself. Wherever it takes him, Stille explores not just the past, but our ideas about the past, how they are changing--and how they will have to change if our past is to have a future.
Futures Past
Title | Futures Past PDF eBook |
Author | Reinhart Koselleck |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Historiography |
ISBN | 0231127715 |
History, Koselleck asserts, emerged in the crucial moment of modernity as a new temporality providing distinctly new ways of assimilating experience. This exploration of the concept of historical time considers the perceived relationships between the present (once the future) & the past (once the present).
The Future of the Past
Title | The Future of the Past PDF eBook |
Author | Serhii Plokhy |
Publisher | Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Ukraine |
ISBN | 9781932650167 |
Ukraine is in the midst of the worst international crisis in East-West relations since the Cold War, and history itself has become a battleground in Russia-Ukraine relations. The Future of the Past shows how the study of Ukraine's past enhances our understanding of Europe, Eurasia, and the world--past, present, and future.
Jerusalem
Title | Jerusalem PDF eBook |
Author | Moshe Safdie |
Publisher | Boston : Houghton Mifflin |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
The brilliant and controversial architect discusses his work in Jerusalem where he has rebuilt part of the Jewish quarter and designed, among other projects, two rabbinical colleges and a memorial to the children of the Holocaust. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Past is the Present; It's the Future Too
Title | The Past is the Present; It's the Future Too PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Ross |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 360 |
Release | 2012-06-28 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1441147748 |
The term 'temporality' often refers to the traditional mode of the way time is: a linear procession of past, present and future. As philosophers will note, this is not always the case. Christine Ross builds on current philosophical and theoretical examinations of time and applies them to the field of contemporary art: films, video installations, sculpture and performance works. Ross first provides an interdisciplinary overview of contemporary studies on time, focusing on findings in philosophy, psychology, sociology, communications, history, postcolonial studies, and ecology. She then illustrates how contemporary artistic practices play around with what we consider linear time. Engaging the work of artists such as Guido van der Werve, Melik Ohanian, Harun Farocki, and Stan Douglas, allows investigation though the art, as opposed to having art taking an ancillary role. The Past is the Present; It's the Future Too forces the reader to understand the complexities of the significance of temporal development in new artistic practices.
The Future of the Soviet Past
Title | The Future of the Soviet Past PDF eBook |
Author | Anton Weiss-Wendt |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2021-10-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0253057604 |
In post-Soviet Russia, there is a persistent trend to repress, control, or even co-opt national history. By reshaping memory to suit a politically convenient narrative, Russia has fashioned a good future out of a "bad past." While Putin's regime has acquired nearly complete control over interpretations of the past, The Future of the Soviet Past reveals that Russia's inability to fully rewrite its Soviet history plays an essential part in its current political agenda. Diverse contributors consider the many ways in which public narrative shapes Russian culture—from cinema, television, and music to museums, legislature, and education—as well as how patriotism reflected in these forms of culture implies a casual acceptance of the valorization of Stalin and his role in World War II. The Future of the Soviet Past provides effective and nuanced examples of how Russia has reimagined its Soviet history as well as how that past still influences Russia's policymaking.
The Future Without a Past
Title | The Future Without a Past PDF eBook |
Author | John Paul Russo |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | 325 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0826264735 |
"Argues that technological imperatives like rationalization, universalism, monism, and autonomy have transformed the humanities and altered the relation between humans and nature. Examines technology and its impact on education, historical memory, and technological and literary values in criticism and theory, concluding with an analysis of the fiction of Don DeLillo"--Provided by publisher.