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Mal d'archive: On the Growth of Gunter Demnig's Stolperstein-Project (2014)
Journal Article
Osborne, D. (2014). Mal d'archive: On the Growth of Gunter Demnig's Stolperstein-Project. Paragraph, 37(3), 372-386. https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2014.0135

In Archive Fever, Derrida opens a critical perspective on the status of the trace as that which remains with his reading of Gradiva, the Pompeian fantasy woman who is supposed to have left her singular toe-print in the ash of Vesuvius. This article r... Read More about Mal d'archive: On the Growth of Gunter Demnig's Stolperstein-Project.

"Alas, alas. House, oh house!": The Collapse of the Cologne City Archive (2014)
Journal Article
Osborne, D. (2014). "Alas, alas. House, oh house!": The Collapse of the Cologne City Archive. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 1(3), 395-416. https://doi.org/10.1386/jucs.1.3.395_1

When the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne (known as Cologne’s City Archive) collapsed in 2009, a municipal institution became visible in quite unintended ways. The incident and its consequences tell us about the structure, constitution and r... Read More about "Alas, alas. House, oh house!": The Collapse of the Cologne City Archive.

“Diese heiklen Formen” : destruction and desire in Durs Grünbein's Porzellan (2014)
Journal Article
Osborne, D. (2014). “Diese heiklen Formen” : destruction and desire in Durs Grünbein's Porzellan. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, 89(1), 20-39. https://doi.org/10.1080/00168890.2014.875429

This article considers Durs Grünbein's use of porcelain in his 2005 collection, Porzellan. Poem vom Untergang meiner Stadt as a symbol for both Dresden's Baroque splendor and its destruction in the firestorm of February 1945. Moving between beautiful... Read More about “Diese heiklen Formen” : destruction and desire in Durs Grünbein's Porzellan.