Architectures of Education - Irit Rogoff - Walking to School Through a Camp: A Short Tale of Infrastructure

Walking to School Through a Camp: A Short Tale of Infrastructure

Irit Rogoff

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Appellplatz, Mauthausen, 2016. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Architectures of Education
April 2020










Notes
1

Keller Easterling, Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (London: Verso, 2014), 11.

2

Adam Cyra, “Mauthausen Concentration Camp Records in the Auschwitz Museum Archives,” Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, Historical Research Section, 2014.

3

Henry Friedlander, “The Nazi Concentration Camps.” In Michael D. Ryan ed., Human Responses to the Holocaust Perpetrators and Victims, Bystanders and Resisters. (Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1981), 33–69. Gary Weissman, Fantasies of Witnessing: Postwar Efforts to Experience the Holocaust (Ithica: Cornell University Press, 2004), 2–3.

4

Irit Rogoff, “From Ruins to Debris: The Feminisation of Fascism in German History Museums.” In Daniel J. Sherman and Irit Rogoff, eds., Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacle (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994).

5

Shoshana Fellman and Dori Laub, Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History (New York: Routledge, 1991); Giorgio Agamben, Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive (New York: Zone Books, 1999).

6

Stefano Harney “Shipping and The Shipped,” for “Infrastructure” curated by freethought, Bergen Assembly, 2016, , .

7

Avital Ronell, The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric speech (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986), 5.

8

Keller Easterling, Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005), 1.

This contribution derives from a presentation given at Nottingham Contemporary on November 8, 2019. A video recording of the presentation is available here.

Architectures of Education is a collaboration between Nottingham Contemporary, Kingston University, and e-flux Architecture, and a cross-publication with The Contemporary Journal.