Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/28591
Title: Diachronic Fetishisation: Ruin Porn and Pitcairn Island Language, Archaeology, and Architecture
Contributor(s): Nash, Joshua  (author)orcid ; Gibbs, Martin  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2018
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-93390-0_8
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/28591
Abstract: Two meanings of the transitive verb to fetishise are "to make (something) the object of a sexual fetish" and "to have an excessive and irrational commitment to (something)." Our use of fetish in this chapter tends towards the second definition. We are diachronic fetishisers, committed to documenting and writing about old tangibles and vintage intangibles across time: crumbling buildings and near dead languages. Without us, much of what we record through viewing and hearing would be lost, because the people whose things we fetishise and archive are largely little interested in these very things themselves beyond any utilitarian or economic value. Time is both our friend and our enemy. It creates the nature and the forms we consider. Ruining, ruin photography, ruin pornography, and ruin language documentation are our methods.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Ruin Porn and the Obsession with Decay, p. 137-153
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication: Cham, Switzerland
ISBN: 9783319933894
9783319933900
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 210313 Pacific History (excl. New Zealand and Maori)
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 451310 Pacific Peoples linguistics and languages
451304 Pacific Peoples cultural history
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies
280113 Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: https://www.rahs.org.au/update-september-history-magazine/
WorldCat record: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1082343495
Editor: Editor(s): Siobhan Lyons
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
School of Psychology

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