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Plattetopia: The Prefabrication of Utopia in East Berlin

Plattetopia: The Prefabrication of Utopia in East Berlin

With the fall of the Berlin Wall came the licence to take a wrecking ball to its nightmare of repression. But there began the unwritten violence of Die Wende, the peaceful revolution that hides the Oedipal violence of one order killing another.

Revolution from Below: Tim Mohr’s ‘Burning Down the Haus’

Revolution from Below: Tim Mohr’s ‘Burning Down the Haus’

There's almost a nostalgia in Mohr's book for simpler times, when tyranny was orderly and bureaucratic and when antagonists and their tools of oppression were clearly defined.

The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) (2006)