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From: lauf-s <lauf-s@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 11:26:02 -0400
hey Brian, a rebuilding of the Berlin Wall (even) in plastic
would/will have reenactionary architecturism "written all
over it."
The Israel Wall is real, and will probably always be
compared with the quondam real Berlin Wall. West Berlin was
the great walled city of the 20th century. Is Israel now
going to be the great walled nation of the 21st century? [I
know yesterday's article (sent by Michael Kaplan), speaks of
the Israel Wall as "the biggest construction project in the
world, "so I'm now wondering if the Iron Curtain was the
last prior "biggest construction project in the world."
Then, also, was/is the Great Wall of China the biggest
construction project ever?]
A rebuilding of the Berlin Wall in Berlin in plastic would
not be much different than, for example, a reenactment of a
Civil War battle.
The Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia appears to be
reenacting both Third Empire Paris as well as Piranesi's
virtual Campo Marzio.
It will (probably) still take some time before Las Vegas
loses it's 'status' as reenactment capital of the world,
however.
It's interesting to see all the various directions that
"degrees of separation" can go when it comes to reenactment.