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German American internment - Wikipedia
Who knew? "Under the authority of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, over 11,000 Germans and German Americans were selectively detained and interned at the start of World War II. In addition, over 4,500 ethnic Germans were brought to the U.S. from Latin America and detained." (as comparison, 10x as many Japanese-Americans were interned)
usa  wikipedia  war  germany  memory 
september 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
Protests over terror arrest of German academic | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
"prosecutors arrested Mr Holm on 8/1 under the anti-terrorism law, citing repeated use of words such as "gentrification" & "inequality" in his papers." Similar terms have been used by an urban activist organisation accused of arson
germany  planning  europe  monopoly_on_violence 
august 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Jochen Gerz - Tausch der Tabus (Exchange of Taboos)
"artist invited representatives from 8 religious faiths [in the Ruhr] to answer the question: 'Is it possible to depict the subject of your quest?'...Answers engraved on 8 glass panels, installed permanently at the place of worship of another faith."
art  memory  religion  germany 
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Goethe-Institut Contemporary Monument Concepts in Germany
Countermonument: "alluded to an artistic criticism of monuments, which was a conscious departure from the traditional iconography of monuments, or rather, which took it to absurd lengths."
germany  memory  ff_paterson 
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
JSTOR: Critical Inquiry: Vol. 18, No. 2 (Winter, 1992), pp. 267-296
The Counter-Monument: Memory against Itself in Germany Today by James E. Young [jstor lock-out, get ye to NYPL]
history  ff_paterson  germany  toread  architecture 
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
eteam
of Int'l Airport Montello fame
landscape  usa  germany  art  installation 
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Susken Rosenthal
drawings of the path of a soccer ball during the match.
sport  art  germany  viarodcorp 
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
IIASA - Europe: Maps: Demography
kio: check out the children 0-4 in germany map.
germany  demography  map  europe 
november 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Unterseeboot 505 - Wikipedia
"On 4 June 1944, United States Navy Task Group 22.3 captured U-505, the first time a US Navy vessel had captured an enemy at sea since 1815." Currently at Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago
chicago  water  war  wwii  germany  museum  wikipedia 
may 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
e p r a m --- a u f b a u p h a s e
"this particular EPRAM is a random unresolved acronym chosen at the drop of a hat in 2002" - (things I thought I had bookmarked months ago)
urban  psychogeography  berlin  germany  walking 
december 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
ctrl[space] : Rhetorics of Surveillance
a google of 'vito acconci following' turned this up. looks good, if german.
germany  art 
november 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
This is Baader-Meinhof
It was about scraping the bucolic soil and exposing the fascist, Nazi-tainted bedrock that the modern West German state was propped upon.
germany  history  politics  terrorism  monopoly_on_violence 
november 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
Tetraeder on Flickr
The waste dump event Emscherblick, briefly tetrahedrons in Bottrop is of the architect Wolfgang Christian in form of a three-lateral pyramid more sketched in the year 1995 more delighted and a freely accessible observation tower on the waste dump
germany  architecture  math  photography 
november 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
Anarchitect
great e.g. of a personal site that doesn't contain much personal (private) info. Instead: photos and experiments. Parts in deutsch
anarchy  photography  art  germany  person 
october 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
augmented urbanism - DENCITY.net
On dencity.net, you can give virtual extensions to real places
mobile  urban  germany  annotate_space 
august 2005 by fakeisthenewreal

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