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Posted: 28 Aug 2020

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The Future of Nostalgia •
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Swetlana Boym •
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Berlin Wall 1999

Berlin Wall 1999
Berlin Walls, East Side Gallery, 1999 ~ Photo by Svetlana Boym

HBM & Best wishes to all

Annemarie, Ulrich John, tiabunna, Fred Fouarge and 2 other people have particularly liked this photo

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 Dinesh
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When the wall was present, it wasn’t much spken about; not that it is virtually absent, it is even more visible. In this stereotypical dual of East and west, each accused the other of nostalgia for the wall that had left an enduring scar on the city’s psyche; its all-too-hasty disappearance from the cityscape produced a large psychic specter. The wall, as it turns out, both divided the two Berlins and defined their codependence, each side’s psychic investment in the other that was either evil or potentially utopian mirror image of the self. Breaking that invisible mirror was travelling through the looking glass to face cultural and economic differences die not prove easy.

With the destruction of the wall, the city itself turned into “the largest construction site coexist, and archeological digging competes with the virtual reconstruction of the future. . . . Page 179
3 years ago. Edited 11 months ago.
 Dinesh
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THE FUTURE OF NOSTALGIA
3 years ago. Edited 11 months ago.
 Jaap van 't Veen
Jaap van 't Veen club
Well spotted and captured.
hBM
11 months ago.
 Ecobird
Ecobird club
Well captured Dinesh. It works well in black and white
HBM and have a good week
11 months ago.
 David Slater (Spoddendale)
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HBM Dinesh and best wishes for the new week.
11 months ago.
 Xata
Xata club
Interesting instructive comments too, HBM Dinesh
11 months ago.
 Fred Fouarge
Fred Fouarge club
Inderdaad zoals Xata het zegt ook van mij Hbm Dinesh
11 months ago.
 tiabunna
tiabunna club
Interesting comments and well captured history, Dinesh. Belated HBM, have a good week.
11 months ago.
 Ulrich John
Ulrich John club
An impressive shot, Dinesh ! And an interesting text. HBM and a good week for you !
11 months ago. Edited 11 months ago.

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