Flânerie at Ground Zero: Aesthetic countermemories in Lower Manhattan

American Quarterly

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 269-299

  Zuber, Devin ^a  

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EID: 60949697755     PISSN: 00030678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/aq.2006.0053     Document Type: Review

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1. The day after George W. Bush was reelected, Andrew Veal of Georgia, who had been deeply distressed over America's engagement in the Middle East, drove hundreds of miles to Ground Zero and shot himself in the head. Robert McFadden, "Ground Zero Is Setting of a Suicide, and a Mystery," New York Times, November 8, 2004
2. Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, trans. Hannah Arendt (New York: Schocken Books, 1968), 242
3. Art Spiegelman, In the Shadows of No Towers (New York: Random House, 2004), 2
4. Paul Virilio, The Vision Machine, trans. Julie Rose (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994), 14
5. Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004), 418-19
6. Philip Nobel, Sixteen Acres: Architecture and the Outrageous Struggle for the Future of Ground Zero (New York: Metropolitan, 2005), 71
7. Marita Sturken, " The Aesthetics of Absence: Rebuilding Ground Zero," American Ethnologist 31.3 (August 2004): 312
8. Nobel, Sixteen Acres, 244
9. Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), 14
10. T. A. Adorno to Walter Benjamin, February 1, 1939, in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, vol. 4, trans. Edmund Jephcott (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003), 202
11. Andreas Huyssen, Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003), 50
12. S. Brent Plate, Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics: Rethinking Religion Through the Arts (New York: Routledge, 2005), 131
13. Benjamin, The Arcades Project, 427, 419
14. Walter Benjamin, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings, trans. Edmund Jephcott (New York: Schocken Books, 1978), 25
15. John Hyland, "The Future of Public Education: The Case Against Tuition Hikes," The Clarion: Newspaper of the Professional Staff Congress, December 2002, 7
16. Benjamin, The Arcades Project, 427
17. Ervard Abrahimian, Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), 105
18. Melani McAlister, Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), 204
19. Feroz Ahmed, "Iran: Subimperialism in Action," Pakistan Forum 3.6-7 (March-April 1973): 13
20. Elaine Scarry, Who Defended the Country? (Boston: Beacon Press, 2003), 39
21. Slavoj Žižek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11th and Related Dates (New York: Verso, 2002), 51-52
22. See http://www.coalitionof911families.org (accessed April 15, 2005)
23. Suzanne Stephens, Imagining Ground Zero: Official and Unofficial Proposals for the World Trade Center Site (New York: Rizzoli, 2005), 45
24. Quoted in Michael Archer, Art Since 1960 (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997), 161
25. See http://www.britneyunderground.com (accessed January 7, 2006)
26. Setha M. Low, "The Memorialization of September 11: Dominant and Local Discourses on the Rebuilding of the World Trade Center Site," American Ethnologist 31.3 (August 2004): 329
27. Benjamin, Illuminations, 224
28. See http://www.nationalphilistine.com/baghdad/snapshots/index.html (accessed March 20, 2005)
29. Milton Glaser, The Design of Dissent: Socially and Politically Driven Graphics (Gloucester, Mass.: Rockport Publishers, 2005)
30. Benjamin, Reflections, 179 (emphasis in original)
31. Susan Sontag, "Regarding the Torture of Others," New York Times Magazine, May 23, 2004: 25-34
32. Quoted in James Allen and Hilton Als, Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America (New York: Twin Palms Publishing, 2000), 11
33. Huyssen, Present Pasts, 22-23
34. Ira Berlin and Leslie Harris, Slavery in New York (New York: New Press, 2005)
35. See http://www.africanburialground.com (accessed June 3 2005); Howard Dodson, "The City Has Another Ground Zero," The Daily News, August 4, 2003
36. Low, "The Memorialization of September 11," 335
37. Stephens, Imagining Ground Zero, 39
38. Scarry, The Body in Pain, 14
39. Eleanor Heartney, "Cultivating Hope: The Visionary Art of Agnes Denes," in Agnes Denes: Projects for Public Spaces (Bucknell University Pa.: Samek Art Gallery, 2003), 28
40. Agnes Denes, "The Dream" in Art and the Public Sphere, ed. W. J. T. Mitchell (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), 186
41. Robert Smithson, "A Tour of the Monuments in Passaic, New Jersey," in Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), 74
42. Robert Smithson, "Entropy and the New Monuments," in Robert Smithson, 11
43. See Rebecca Comay's surmise of Benjamin's iconoclasm in "Materialist Mutations of the Bildverbot," in Walter Benjamin and Art, ed. Andrew Benjamin (London: Continuum International, 2005), 32-55
44. In addition to Walter Benjamin and Art, see Mapping Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Digital Age, ed. Hans Gumbrecht (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003)
45. Herbert Muschamp, "One Vision: A Hill of Green at Ground Zero," New York Times, September 11, 2003
46. New York Sun, April 11, 2003
47. Plate, Walter Benjamin, 135
48. Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999), 111-13, 55
49. Scarry, On Beauty, 30
50. James Pagliasotti, "An Interview with Christo and Jeanne-Claude," January 4, 2002; http://christojeanneclaude.net/eyeLevel. html (accessed March 15, 2005)