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'A Thing is its Own Best Mask': Antagonisms of the Architectural Wrap

Sterling, CP; (2017) 'A Thing is its Own Best Mask': Antagonisms of the Architectural Wrap. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology , 4 (1) pp. 91-106. 10.1558/jca.32400. Green open access

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Abstract

This photo essay interrogates an increasingly familiar sight in the preservation landscape of our cities: buildings encased in images of themselves. The strange details of these architectural wraps are photographed as a means of exposing the surreal fissures that speak to their underlying ontologies, explored here with reference to Slavoj Zizek's concept of the parallax and Graham Harman's notion of immaterialism. This photographic archaeology further seeks to unravel the overarching inconsistencies of heritage and preservation, with the building wrap seen to embody many of the paradoxes and tensions of these fields.

Type: Article
Title: 'A Thing is its Own Best Mask': Antagonisms of the Architectural Wrap
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1558/jca.32400
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.32400
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10039961
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