Unconscious Desire to Deny
Mar 6, 2024 11:18:48 GMT
Post by account_disabled on Mar 6, 2024 11:18:48 GMT
Cities Are Living Bodies That Change According to the Needs, Values and Desires of Their Inhabitants, and These Transformations Are Always the Result of Political and Cultural Conflicts. Tearing Down Monuments Commemorating Past Rulers Gives a Historical Dimension to Present-day Struggles Against Racism and Oppression. Maybe It Even Means Something More Than That. It is Another Way of Opposing the Gentrification of Our Cities, Which Involves the Metamorphosis of Their Historic Districts Into Reified and Fetishized Places. Once a City is Classified by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural.
Organization (Unesco) as a “world Heritage Site,” It is Doomed to Die. The "Barbarians" Who Tear Down Statues Implicitly Protest Against Current Neoliberal Policies That, While Expelling the Lower Classes From Urban Centers, Transform the Latter Into UK Mobile Database Frozen Vestiges. The Symbols of Former Slavery and Colonialism Are Combined With the Glaring Face of Real Estate Capitalism, and These Are the Targets of the Protesters. The Look of the Defeated Anti-racist Iconoclasm, According to a More Sophisticated and Perverse Argument, Expresses an the Past. According to This Argument, No Matter How.
Oppressive and Unpleasant the Past Was, It Cannot Be Changed. This is Certainly True. But Moving Through the Past, Particularly if It is a Past Full of Racism, Slavery, Colonialism and Genocide, Does Not Mean Celebrating It, as Most of the Toppled Statues Do. In Germany, the Nazi Past is Overwhelmingly Present in City Squares and Streets Through Memorials That Celebrate Its Victims and Not Its Perpetrators. In Berlin, the Holocaust Memorial Stands as a Warning to Future Generations ( Das Mahnmal ). The Crimes of the Ss Are Not Remembered With a Statue Commemorating Heinrich Himmler, but Through an Outdoor and Indoor Exhibition Called "Topography of Terror", Which is Located in the Headquarters of a Former Ss Office.
Organization (Unesco) as a “world Heritage Site,” It is Doomed to Die. The "Barbarians" Who Tear Down Statues Implicitly Protest Against Current Neoliberal Policies That, While Expelling the Lower Classes From Urban Centers, Transform the Latter Into UK Mobile Database Frozen Vestiges. The Symbols of Former Slavery and Colonialism Are Combined With the Glaring Face of Real Estate Capitalism, and These Are the Targets of the Protesters. The Look of the Defeated Anti-racist Iconoclasm, According to a More Sophisticated and Perverse Argument, Expresses an the Past. According to This Argument, No Matter How.
Oppressive and Unpleasant the Past Was, It Cannot Be Changed. This is Certainly True. But Moving Through the Past, Particularly if It is a Past Full of Racism, Slavery, Colonialism and Genocide, Does Not Mean Celebrating It, as Most of the Toppled Statues Do. In Germany, the Nazi Past is Overwhelmingly Present in City Squares and Streets Through Memorials That Celebrate Its Victims and Not Its Perpetrators. In Berlin, the Holocaust Memorial Stands as a Warning to Future Generations ( Das Mahnmal ). The Crimes of the Ss Are Not Remembered With a Statue Commemorating Heinrich Himmler, but Through an Outdoor and Indoor Exhibition Called "Topography of Terror", Which is Located in the Headquarters of a Former Ss Office.