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city as palimpsest, redux

Posted on September 7, 2016 by twotreatises

“Richard Lehan* has pointed out the impact of urban archaeology’s ‘discovery of layered cities’ – notably Heinrich Schliemann’s discoveries in Troy (1871) and Arthur Evans’ in Crete (Knossos, 1876) – upon modernist urban literature. Urban fantasy has been particularly influenced … Continue reading →

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language as palimpsest

Posted on July 2, 2013 by twotreatises

“Language is an archaeological vehicle, full of the remnants of dead and living pasts, lost and buried civilizations and technologies. The language we speak us a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.” — Russell Hoban in Novelists in Interview … Continue reading →

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Myth Germania

Posted on April 11, 2008 by twotreatises

There is an exhibit in Berlin this year about Albert Speer’s (/Hitler’s) architectural plans for Berlin in the mid-20th century. The exhibition shows the pictures, plans and architectural models for the city. From the Time article: “In close collaboration with … Continue reading →

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architecture, writing and music as palimpsests

Posted on March 24, 2007 by twotreatises

Building, Destroying or Ignoring: Examining Creative Relationships to a Past—Palimpsest as Metaphor Introduction: Young Riddle (director of the Nimbus Institute, created to investigate the deeper aspects of music performed by the Nimbus Ensemble) picture of palimpsest—first erased, but traces remain, … Continue reading →

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Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory

Posted on January 20, 2007 by twotreatises

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 →

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