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Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory
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CuLturaL Memory

in the Present

Present Pasts URBAN PALIMPSESTS AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY

ANDREAS

HUYSSEN

PRESENT PASTS Urban Palimpsests and the Politics ofMemory

Andreas Huyssen

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS STANFORD, CALIFORNIA

Stanford Universiry Press Stanford, California

© 2003 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. Several of the essays in this book appeared in earlier versions: Chapter I. "Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia," Public Cultur", special issue on globalization, 12, no. I (2000): 21-38. Chapter 2. "Monumental Seduction," New German Critique 69 (Fall 1996): 181-200. Chapter 3. "The Voids of Berlin," Critical Inquiry 24, no. I (Autumn 1997): 57-81. Chapler 4. "After [he War: Berlin as Palimpsest," Harvard Design Maga.zine (Spring 2000): 70-75. Chapter 5. "Fear of Mice: The Transformations of Times Square," Harvard Dtsign Magazine (Winter/Spring 1998): 26-28. Chapter 7. "Unland: The Orphan's Tunic," in Nancy Princenthal et al .. Doris Salcedo (London: Phaidon, 2000), 90-ro3. Chapter 8. "Of Mice and Mimesis: Reading Spiegelman with Adorno," New German Critique 81 (Fall 2000): 65-82. Chapter ro. "Twin Memories: Afterimages of Nine/Eleven," Grt) Room 7 (Spring 2002): 8-13. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-