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(re)writing personal and public history
through journals and blogs, through which emails you save and delete Nixon wanted to have documentation of his presidency so recorded everything on tape systems he set up throughout the White House and elsewhere. When these were subpoenaed for the … Continue reading
Posted in history/memory
Tagged don quixote, history, i love google, kundera, nixon, watergate, WEB DuBois
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Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory
by Andreas Huyssen, essays written 1996-2002 “Architecture has always been deeply invested in the shaping of political and national identities…” p. 49 I like the idea of palimpsests (and city as palimpsest), and I love studies of memory. The book … Continue reading
Posted in art/architecture, history/memory, literature, los angeles
Tagged adorno, albert speer, berlin, christo, kundera, ozymandias, palimpsest, reichstag, ruins, the jewish museum
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cityscope: a compilation of obsessions
mini-book/zine i made for my friends, december 2006 ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ******
Posted in art/architecture, history/memory, language, literature, los angeles, movies/photography, music, philosophy/religion
Tagged albert speer, california, chatham, david markson, debord, delany, dictionary, didion, eliot, eternal return, fante, flowers, gaiman, hollywood, iggy pop, kundera, library, nathanael west, o'keeffe, palimpsest, park, plato, public transit, rilke, robert frost, ruins, shelley, watergate, west los angeles, woodward, woolf, yogi berra
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