Characteristically, the textual and visual record of Dido’s visit to Germany in 1886 takes the form of reports about him, rather than any statements or observations of his own.
What would reports from Dido himself look like?
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In 2001 the city of Berlin announced plar1 to build n und rg ound parking lot in he vast pac rrounding Ullin nn's monument . B lin ha good public ansportation but de rth of downtown parking space. Places for 458 c rst i was argued, would fill a g nuine n d. Sine the underground g rag wouldn't displ c h monum nt, but only fill up th empty spac around it, this was an argument I ace pted, especially since I'm wary of turning every reminder of terror into acred space.
Does the parking garage disrespect and take away from Ullmann's memorial to the book burning?
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But ther 's no monument emember · ng he victim of coloni 1 famin s nd mass er s, al hough monum nt o th victim r h ro s, t
I found this sentence to be off-putting (and the passage that follows to be very frustrating) because Neiman is commending Germany's Holocaust Memorial in the center of Berlin and comparing this to the lack of monuments remembering victims of colonial powers, but nowhere is there mention of Germany's violent colonial past. Where is the German memorial honoring Nama and Herero peoples? Why is there no mention of German Colonialism in this passage?
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economic autarchy
Autarchy (also autarky) refers to the state of self-sufficiency typically used to describe nations or economies that have the goal of reducing their dependence on other nations (limited/no involvement in international trade). (from google)
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The question of colonial genocide is disturbing, in part becauseit increases the number of mass murders regarded as genocide, andin part, too, because it calls into question the Europeanization ofthe globe as a modernizing project.
This is interesting to think about. Supporting the singularity thesis of the Holocaust makes it easier to create Hitler and Nazis as absolute evil beings and disregard the history (esp. colonialism) that led to the Third Reich by blaming the Holocaust on Hitler being evil. Then individuals can go on thinking it will never happen again because people aren't evil-- especially not the kind of evil that is reserved for only Hitler and his supporters. Furthermore, it allows individuals to remove themselves and their society from blame. This idea of absolute evil erases any individual or societal reflection that might have stemmed from knowing that these previous genocides and ideas existed before Hitler.
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he museums of which M . Caillois is so proud, not fo r one minute does i t cross his mind that, all things considered, it would have been better not to needed them; that Europe would have done better to tolerate the non-European civilizations at its side, leaving them alive, dynamic and prosperous, whole and not mutilated; that it would have better to let them develop and fulfill themselves than to present fo r our admiration, duly labelled, their dead and scattered parts; that anyway, the museum by itself is nothing; that it means nothing, that i t can say nothing, when smug self-satisfaction rots the eyes, when a secret contempt fo r others withers the heart, when racism, admitted or not, dries up sympathy; that it means nothing if its only purpose is to fe ed the delights of vanity
I am really interested in discussing whether or not museums are ethical-- especially considering many of the relics are stolen. Also something I wonder, is if we should be showing human remains/ culturally significant artifacts?
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Something this passage made me wonder is whether or not an individual can create their own culture?
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repudiate
repudiate: refuse to accept or be associated with (from google)
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the question ,1s 2ot: what are the aesthetic qualities of this work that make 1t part of Arno)~ ~ the best that has been thought and written"? But, rather: what are the qual~ttes of this text admired by readers in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centunes that made them think of it as expressing absolute "beauty" or "truth" in a way that they believed transcended the historical moment in which it was ':"ritt~n or_ i_n which it was being read?
I thought this was interesting because in high school, we were always asked to analyze the literary devices and word choices that the author uses--and never asked to think about why the work was important for society/ individuals at the time it was produced.
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