Baustellen der Zerstörung. Literatur, Architektur und Dekonstruktion

Architecture;Zerstörung;Palimpsest;Dekonstruktion;Babel;Thomas Bernhard;W.G. Sebald;Alexander Kluge;German

Birke, JohannesEgginton, William ;

Johns Hopkins University

关键词: Architecture;    Zerstörung;    Palimpsest;    Dekonstruktion;    Babel;    Thomas Bernhard;    W.G. Sebald;    Alexander Kluge;    German;   

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瑞士|英语

来源: JOHNS HOPKINS DSpace Repository

【 摘 要 】

My dissertation analyzes representational and epistemological modes of architectural destruction in literature, theory, and film since the 1960s. I argue in my thesis that architectural destruction challenges the limits of writing, building, and memory, and that this is integral to the production and understanding of architecture and literature in the late twentieth century. I take a decidedly transmedial perspective on the relationship between architecture and literature, and include examples of painting, photography, and film. As a program of dismantling the ;;architecture’ of Western philosophical thought, the rise of deconstruction in the late 1960s found immediate resonance among the architects of the period. Deconstruction pervades their theoretical work no less than their actual processes of building. I argue that deconstruction is concerned, not only with the displacement of the system of architectural metaphors (in philosophy), but also with the concrete materiality of architecture itself. My thesis links the metaphorical and material aspects of architectural destruction in order to establish a new theoretical framework for the construction, representation, and reception of architecture in literature and cinema. Close readings of Thomas Bernhard’s novels Das Kalkwerk and Korrektur set up a ;;poetology of construction sites of destruction.’ With Bernhard, I show how architecture becomes an agent in both the processes of writing and destroying (among other things especially itself). The relationship between architectural destruction and memory is then analyzed with W.G. Sebald;;s Austerlitz. The novel not only plays with the traditional notion of the invention of mnemotechnics through the destruction of architecture (as in, for example, The Legend of Simonedes of Keos), but also reflects the destruction of architecture in its narrative form and representational modes. A chapter on Alexander Kluge’s text Luftangriff auf Halberstadt am 8. April 1945 and documentaries about different events of the destruction of architecture (eg. 9/11 and the demolition of the Berlin Wall) investigates the interplay of architecture, text and visual media. Techniques like the montage and the superimposition thereby prove to be specifically architectural strategies for the visualization of the destruction of architecture. In this context, an acoustic mode of the reception of the destruction of architecture becomes apparent. How this is used for the production of music is described in a short conclusion with the German industrial rock band Einstürzende Neubauten.