A monument to dismantlement

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Varvantakis, Christos. 2009. A monument to dismantlement. Memory Studies, 2(1), pp. 27-38. ISSN 1750-6980 [Article]

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The Palast der Republik was the parliament building of the former German Democratic Republic and an entertainment center for its people. It is currently being dismantled in a lengthy procedure that will last for a period of three years. The extended `present' of the building's removal is the focus of this article, which examines the ways in which the building is becoming a memory as it de-materializes. Throughout the text, the monumental characteristics of the dismantlement and its physiognomy as a monument to temporality are taken into consideration.

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https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698008097393