Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Illustrations xi
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia 11
6. 2. Monumental Seduction: Christo in Berlin 30
7. 3. The Voids of Berlin 49
8. 4. After the War: Berlin as Palimpsest 72
9. 5. Fear of Mice: The Times Square Redevelopment 85
10. 6. Memory Sites in an Expanded Field: The Memory Park in Buenos Aires 94
11. 7. Doris Salcedo’s Memory Sculpture: Unland: The Orphan’s Tunic 110
12. 8. Of Mice and Mimesis: Reading Spiegelman with Adorno 122
13. 9. Rewritings and New Beginnings: W. G. Sebald and the Literature on the Air War 138
14. 10. Twin Memories: Afterimages of Nine/Eleven 158
15. Notes 165