Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Shusterman, Richard

Titel

The Urban Aesthetics of Absence: Pragmatist Reflections in Berlin

Ist Teil von

• New literary history, 1997-10, Vol.28 (4), p.739-755

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore, etc: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

1997

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Beyond the thick crush of the sweating, shaking, beer-stinking techno crowd-packed too tight to allow free breathing let alone free dance-high above the break beats and the loops blaring from the speakers, the U-bahn flashed a utopian vision of silent, smooth, unfettered movement through unencumbered space, an escape from the crowded tumult of the underground "city-scene" into a deeper underground city, an escape into absent freedom. [...] the now absent wall dividing East and West remains in many ways the structuring principle of this unified city, just as the divided cities of East and West Berlin were defined essentially by their contrasting absent parts.