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...David L. Pike Like all of the great modernist cities of Europe, Berlin had a venerable and highly developed underground infrastructure: sewers, service tunnels, subways. But unlike the Paris sewers, the London Tube, or the Roman catacombs, the German capital was not identified in any mythic...

... annihilation. David L. Pike’s exploration of the “spatial metaphorics” of Cold War Berlin includes a panorama of representations focusing vaguely on the Wall that defined both local and global division during the twenty-eight years of its existence and on the tunnels that were said “both to echo...

... sleep and becomes aware of an “almost inaudible whistling noise” whose qualities lead it to an immediate hypothesis about its origin: a new and narrow tunnel dug by smaller animals downward from the forest floor “chanced to intersect an older one, the air was caught there [ die Luft verfängt sich dort...

... hidden in the S-Bahn tunnels to escape the approaching Russian troops with the grotesque, thanatological existence of the people in the Hitler bunker, who, although cornered, con- tinue to practice their bourgeois rituals and take oaths of loyalty to the Füh- rer. Despite the increasing chaos...

... be readily transferred to both Özdamar’s and Şenocak’s sometimes star- tling imagery. The notion of subterranean tunneling combined with Sascha’s interest in the un-used-up side of history (PK, 36) suggests to me a project of nomadology rather than of history, a commitment to the intensive instability...

..., but as she passed through the corridor, she began to lean farther and farther forward until she finally reached the end on all fours. During the entire time she bumped her cheeks and shoulders against the live wires placed at three levels on either side of the tunnel, repeatedly shocking herself...

... in the bright tiles and for a moment feel something almost romantic—you can smell subway, and feel the big city in your veins. Then the black tunnel becomes a strange tube inhabited by giants, and the stone walls and the hundred roll- ing cars that you hear only faintly, all seem to press...

... always spoke of the “darkness” in reference to this zone, a darkness one had to write one’s way into as though into a tunnel.17 While these elements of the inner self cannot find adequate formulation in the conventional terms of representational language, they find an expression 16...

...—which depicts a sort of time tunnel that merges a radiant Renaissance facade upstage with a gigantic subway tube downstage. “The enigma of Hamlet arose in part from the fact that historical time intruded into the dramatic time when the play was written, argues Müller. This circumstance...

... (erasure of Jewish memory). Sometimes the zigzag path becomes a sloped ramp organizing the museum’s circulation in a spacious interior volume; at other times the void is interpreted as a deep interior volume with bridges and closed tunnels crossing it. On another page Libeskind is interested...

... of Handke’s notebooks traversed the central parking lot between the Deutsches Literaturarchiv and the Literaturmuseum der Moderne (likely through the underground tunnel that connects the two institutions) ( fig. 10 ), where they were displayed in the exhibition Reisen: Fotos von unterwegs ( Traveling...

... that this nostalgic haut bourgeois intellectual, with all his mandarin fastidiousness and remorseless tunnel vision, should join the ranks of Mikhail Bakhtin and Walter Benjamin as one of the most creative, original cultural theorists Marxism has yet produced” (The Ideology of the Aesthetic [Oxford...

..., 263. 59. “Trial of a Trial,” Time, September 25, 1933. Figure 3. “Weighed and found wanting” Anson Rabinbach 119 the Reichstag, who claimed that the incendiaries could not have entered the Reichstag except through a tunnel leading from the offi cial...