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The Inhabited Ruins of
Central Europe
Re-imagining Space, History, and Memory
Edited by
Dariusz Gafijczuk
University College London
and
Derek Sayer
Lancaster University
Editorial matter, selection, prologue, introduction and chapters 7 & 8
© Dariusz Gafijczuk and Derek Sayer 2013
Remaining chapters © Respective authors 2013
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Contents
List of Figures v ii
Acknowledgments v iii
Notes on Contributors ix
Prologue: The Day the Wall Came Down (American Surreal) 1
Derek Sayer
Introduction: Delicate Empiricism 9
Dariusz Gafijczuk
1 Ruins and Representations of 1989: Exception, Normality,
Revolution 16
Tim Beasley-Murray
2 The Ruins of a Myth or a Myth in Ruins? Freedom and
Cohabitation in Central Europe 40
Paul Blokker
3 Democracy in Ruins: The Case of the Hungarian Parliament 5 5
Endre Dányi
4 Itinerant Memory Places: The Baader-Meinhof-Wagen 7 9
Kimberly Mair
5 Edith Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: A Story of
Farnsworth House 102
Yoke-Sum Wong
6 Fake Fragments, Fake Ruins, and Genuine Paper Ruination 1 34
Jindřich Toman
7 How We Remember and What We Forget: Art History and
the Czech Avant-garde 148
Derek Sayer
8 Anxious Geographies – Inhabited Traditions 1 78
Dariusz Gafijczuk
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9 Terezín as Reverse Potemkin Ruin, in Five Movements
and an Epilogue 1 94
Michael Beckerman
10 Desert Europa and the Sea of Ruins: The Post-Apocalyptic
Imagination in Egon Bondy’s A fghanistan 205
Jonathan Bolton
11 History’s Loose Ends: Imagining the Velvet Revolution 227
Peter Zusi
Index 247
List of Figures
1.1 Grzegorz Klaman Tectonics 35
1.2 Grzegorz Klaman Tectonics 3 6
3.1 A cultural heritage site or an inhabited ruin? 5 6
3.2 Continuity since 1000 – the Holy Crown and the
regalia in the Parliament’s Cupola Hall 5 9
3.3 Continuity since the 1848 revolution – the Parliamentary
Collection of the Library of the National Assembly 66
3.4 Continuity since the 1848 revolution – the Parliamentary
Collection of the Library of the National Assembly 6 7
3.5 Continuity since 1956 and 1989 – commemorative banner
above the main entrance of the Hungarian Parliament, next
to ‘Imre Nagy’s balcony’ 7 3
4.1 Photograph of Wall fragment 9 4
5.1 Farnsworth 1 102
5.2 Farnsworth 2 105
5.3 Tugendhat 1 109
5.4 Farnsworth 3 111
5.5 Farnsworth 4 113
5.6 Farnsworth 5 114
5.7 Tugendhat 2 117
5 .8 Farnsworth 6 128
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Acknowledgments
We are grateful for the generous support of the British Academy and
the Royal Society who sponsored the Newton International Fellowship,
without which the conference that led to this publication would not
have been possible. In addition, we would like to thank all the partici-
pants who came that May to Lancaster University, some of whom are
not represented in this volume.
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Notes on Contributors
Tim B easley-Murray i s Senior Lecturer in European Thought and
Culture at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University
College London. He is the author of M ikhail B akhtin and Walter Benjamin:
Experience and Form (2007). The essay in this volume is related to a larger
project on the relationship between silence and speech.
Michael Beckerman is a scholar, lecturer, and educator. He has published
several books, including Janáček as Theorist (1993), New Worlds of D vořák
(2003), J anáček and His World (2003), and Martinů’s Mysterious Accident
(2007) and has written articles on such topics as Beethoven, Schubert,
Vaughan Williams, ‘Gypsy’ music, Mozart, Gilbert and Sullivan, Salamone
Rossi, film scores, and Slavic history. He is presently working on issues
ranging from musical form (‘The Strange Landscape of Middles,’ Oxford
University Press; ‘The Castle in the Middle of Janáček’s Sinfonietta’) to
exile (‘The Dark Blue Exile of Jaroslav Ježek,’ Music and Politics online;
‘Ježek, Zeisl, Améry and The Exile in the Middle,’ M usic and Displacement )
and is completing a book and documentary about the last composition
written in the Terezín concentration camp by Gideon Klein. A frequent
contributor to The New York Times , he has appeared many times on PBS’s
Live from Lincoln Center and is regularly featured on radio programs and
lectures throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. He was awarded
the Janáček Medal from the Czech Ministry of Culture, is a laureate
of the Czech Music Council and has twice received the ASCAP Deems
Taylor Award for his work on Dvořák. He has been Vice-President of
the American Musicological Society and was a co-founder of the OREL
Foundation. He is currently Carroll and Milton Professor of Music,
collegiate professor, and chair of the Department of Music at New York
University. He was recently named Distinguished Professor of History at
Lancaster University.
Paul Blokker is principle investigator in the research unit
‘Constitutional Politics in Post-Westphalian Europe’ (CoPolis) in
the department of Sociology, University of Trento, Italy. His current
research is on constitutionalisms, multiple democracies, dissent, and
democratic participation. He is a member of the International Editorial
Board of the European Journal of Social Theory . Recent publications
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