Anthony Auerbach
(International Necronautical Society (INS) Chief of Propaganda (Archiving and Epistemological Critique)
where no trace can be found
Where attempts have been made to cover or erase the trace
Where attempts have been made to conceal the erasure
Death as space.
Berlin as a sight of trauma and destruction.
Areas of ambition, downfall.
Destruction, reconstruction.
The past is everywhere invisible.
Berlin’s right to be called ‘World Capital of Death’.
Haunted by the past and inhabited by ghosts.
Neurotic systems.
Midnight book burning.
A glass window to an empty library.
Unintentional inscriptions.
Repetition of concealment and erasure.
Replacing of glass is repression of the inscription.
Multiple and repeated erasures.
Non-existence of palimpsest.
The memorial encourages forgetting.
Failed revolutions.
Empty tombs.
The revolutionary impulse is connected with a cult of death.
Entanglement of the revolutionary with the heroic.
Appeal of the authenticity of the trace.
Traces selectively erased.
Death sanctifies the non-realisation of the ideal.
Pavement of broken mirrors.
Monument to a monument.
Monument to an insurrection.
Reconnaissance.
Publication reveals knowledge.
Traces of searchlights.
Interpretation of images.
Thrills of destruction and over-exposure.
Air Man.
Arial pornography.
Order to the observation.
Systematic but incomplete.
Arial photography runs ahead of interpretation but ahead of the world.
Site of inspections.
Night reconnaissance may be recommended for future INS missions.
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Continuing investigations will be reported in camera.