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RUBBLE RUBBLE The Afterlife of Destruction Gastón R. Gordillo duke university press durham and london | 2014 © 2014 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper ∞ Typeset in Minion by Copperline Book Services, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gordillo, Gastón. Rubble : the afterlife of destruction / Gastón R. Gordillo. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8223-5619-6 (pbk : alk. paper) isbn 978-0-8223-5614-1 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Gran Chaco—Antiquities. 2. Ruins, Modern— Gran Chaco. 3. Rubble—Gran Chaco. 4. Indians of South America—Gran Chaco—Government relations. 5. Collective memory—Gran Chaco. I. Title. f2876.g67 2014 982'.301—dc23 2014001932 Duke University Press gratefully acknowledges the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, which provided funds toward the publication of this book. Frontis: Detail of map of the Gran Chaco by Father Joaquin Camaño (1789). Cover: AP Photo / Natacha Pisarenko For Shaylih Mankind is merely the experimental material, the tremendous surplus of failures: a field of ruins. —Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power Only in traces and ruins . . . is there ever hope of coming across genuine and just reality. —Theodor Adorno, “The Actuality of Philosophy” Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Constellations 1 Part One | Ghosts of Indians One A Haunted Frontier 31 Two On the Edge of the Void 53 Part Two | Lost Cities The Destruction of Space 77 Three Land of Curses and Miracles 85 Four The Ruins of Ruins 111 Part Three | Residues of a Dream World Treks across Fields of Rubble 125 Five Ships Stranded in the Forest 131 Six Bringing a Destroyed Place Back to Life 153 Seven Railroads to Nowhere 169
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