#Berlin News Digest: Sunday reflects our locked choices. While the Russian ambassador joins a memorial march, the ADAC is officially calling the "Berlin autofrei" initiative a failure, demanding infrastructure that actually works for the grid. 🚧

We celebrate the Galatasaray title, yet we stand over the "Sunken Library" at Bebelplatz, remembering the night the logic was burned. How often do we stare at the wall when the exit is just a waddle away? #BND #Autofrei #MemoryCulture #BerlinPolitics

Adam Shatz on German Memory Culture

"To assimilate into German society, the children of Muslim immigrants are discouraged from identifying with the country’s Jewish victims and instructed instead to think of themselves as potential perpetrators of genocide against Jews"

#antisemitism #memoryCulture

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n14/adam-shatz/berlin-diary

Pre Orders for 1001 Accurate Memories Now Open

From traumatic memory culture to learning with bodies

https://www.alexhead.com/bookstore

In 1001 Accurate Memories Berlin artist Alex Head presents patterns of self-repair amongst the ruins of ideas, relationships and human bodies. The author travels across space and time attempting to gain insights into class, disability and trauma through drawing, writing and photography. His investigation into traumatic memory tempts the author to suggest a shift from Germany’s professed ‘memory culture’ to a ‘traumatic memory culture’, in that traumatic memory is greatly more accurate. 

Consequently, 1001 Accurate Memories seeks to locate the reader back within their own skin by highlighting our differentiated but ultimately shared anatomy. 

Birthed from a seven year odyssey into blood, guts and tears, the work proposes that sensations in the body begin wider processes of understanding. By identifying the value of listening to the body in this way, the interpretative role of the human brain becomes more apparent. From this insight stems the ability to see trauma, memory and political propaganda as forms of easily manipulated emotional information. This leads Head to conclude that the primary way to counter such manipulation is the spiritual, physical and mental self-determination of the human body.

There are no special giveaways for pre ordering. The goal is to increase the print run from 100 to 150/200 copies. Each sale creates proportionally more and more copies!

Released first on #Mastodon

Dispatched April-May.

#books #publishing #memory #memoryculture #errinerungskultur #memorypolitics #trauma #artist #art #drawing #photography #newyork #glasgow #plovdiv #london #jakarta #berlin #florence #fedifirst #fedi #somatic #bodies #self #determination #selfdetermination
#human #emotion

#Israel and the #delusions of #Germany’s ‘ #memoryculture ’

Basically, #antisemitism was replaced by obsequious #philosemitism, which turns out to be just the brighter side of the same coin, and denazification was only very superficial, not just in Germany, but everywhere else it had spawned. Basically, the old world of the #extremeright never died. It just kept lurking from under our beds, ready to jump at the forefront, with the freaking faces of #Musk or #Trump.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jan/30/israel-and-the-delusions-of-germanys-memory-culture