The Off-Modern -

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Résumé :
Svetlana Boym writes a new genealogy of modernity, moving beyond older debates between modernism and postmodernism to focus on the intersection of art, architecture, technology, and philosophy in the early twenty-first century. Drawing on theories of Georg Simmel, Henri Bergson, Aby Warburg, and Jacques Derrida, Boym presents the off-modern as an eccentric, self-questioning, anti-authoritarian perspective with roots in the Russian avant-garde, now developed in surprising ways by contemporary artists, architects, and curators around the world. She illustrates the off-modern in discussions of (and with) figures as diverse as architect Rem Koolhaas, Albanian artist-turned-mayor Edi Rama, an art collective in Delhi, and the creator of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles. Both a manifesto and a memoir, The Off-Modern often returns to themes of travel and immigration, exploring issues of diasporic intimacy and productive estrangement amid nostalgic landscapes of urban ruins....

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Svetlana Boym...

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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface David Damrosch (Harvard University, USA)

I: Perspectives

1: History Out-of-Sync
2: Cultural Exaptation
3: Human Error
4: Nostalgic Technologies
5: Digital Resident Aliens
6. Edgy Geography
7. Archive of Pentimenti
8. Perspectivism
9: Prospective Nostalgia
10: Ruinophilia
11: Off-Modern Urbanism
12: Embarrassing Monumentality
13: Tact and Touch
14: Diasporic Intimacy
15: Immigrant Arts
16: Alternative Solidarities, Feminine Friendships
17: Estrangement for the World
18: Defamiliarized Human
19: Squiggles, Spirals and Serpentine Dances
20: The Off-Modern Museum
21: Hypertextual Design and Essayistic Drift
22: On Off

II: Practices

23: Unforeseen Homecoming
24: Phantasmagorias of History
25: Turning the page on the Avant-Garde
26: Hybrid Utopias
27: Global Transits and Portable Homes
28: Postindustrial Art Nouveau: Tirana Arabesque 2010
29: Multitasking with Clouds
30: Airport Ruins
31: Hydrant Immigrants
32: Not Working
33: Black Mirrors

Notes
Bibliography