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Let the Dead be Dead: Memory, Urban Narratives and the Post-Civil War Reconstitution of Beirut
Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona 2004 Conference lectured at the symposium "Urban Traumas. The City and Disasters". CCCB, 7-11 July 2004 In a 1999 conference in Beirut entitled Memory for the Future, a prominent local politician and former candidate for parliament declared:...
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City as Stage: Speculation and Catastrophe in the Bombay Blasts
Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona 2004 Conference lectured at the symposium "Urban Traumas. The City and Disasters". CCCB, 7-11 July 2004 Recently, during a discussion about an exhibition on Bombay to be held in New York, a friend suggested that I use my work on the Bombay...
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The Death of the City and the Survival of Urban Life
Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona 2004 Conference lectured at the symposium "Urban Traumas. The City and Disasters". CCCB, 7-11 July 2004 Strolling through the cemetery of Montparnasse in Paris, I fantasize a poker game with an ideal community of the defunct that includes...

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La rehabilitación del centro histórico de La Habana: Una obra esencialmente humana
Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona 2004 Conferencia pronunciada en el marco del debate "Traumas urbanos. La ciudad y los desastres". CCCB, 7-11 julio 2004 Notas introductorias Narrar la historia de lo acontecido en el Centro Histórico de La Habana, en lo...
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Traumas urbanos: La pérdida de la memoria
Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona 2004 Conferencia pronunciada en el marco del debate "Traumas urbanos. La ciudad y los desastres". CCCB, 7-11 julio 2004 Podemos considerar que ciertos traumas urbanos se producen de manera silenciosa y larvada: se trata de la...
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But Malice Aforethought: Cities and the Natural History of Hatred
Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona 2004 Conference lectured at the symposium "Urban Traumas. The City and Disasters". CCCB, 7-11 July 2004 Introduction «You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door...

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New Frontiers and Universal Values
Transcribed from the lecture given at the cycle on "Borders". Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, 22 March 2004 "Many Cultures, One Humanity". It's a beautiful frame for thinking in our contemporary liquid order and very complex, very difficult, very risky,...
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The Geometry of Occupation
Conference lectured at the cycle "Borders". Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona , 1st March 2004 1. Some Principles of Frontier Geography If borders are nothing but abstract lines denoting the edges of jurisdictions, barriers make them concrete. With the complete mechanization...
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On Collective Memory, Central Space and National Identity
Conference lectured at the symposium "Beirut: Civil Pleasures, Civil Wars". Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona , 5-7 June 2005 Observing Beirut in the throes of reconstruction is a bewitching, often beguiling, experience; both existentially and conceptually. From a close and...