Displacement vs. Mobility; or, Who Owns the World: An Aesthetic Inquiry into Infrastructure, Comm on Possession, and Violence in Karim Aïnouz’s Documentary Film Central Airport THF (2017)
by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky TRANSIT vol. 14, no. 1 Translated by Ross Shields Download PDF Abstract Central Airport THF is a documentary film about the temporary housing of refugees in the halls of the former Tempelhof Airport, located at the edge of Berlin’s Tempelhofer Feld. As if by accident, the director contrasts the arrested life in […]
Foreword by the Managing Editor
DEAR READERS, With this foreword, I present to you the first issue of the fourteenth volume of TRANSIT on Borderlands. As a Journal of Travel, Migration, and Multiculturalism in the German-speaking World, a volume on the theme of borderlands speaks to one of TRANSIT’s most enduring themes. Indeed, over the past few years, members of […]
Reimagining the German-Polish Borderlands in Nowa Amerika and Słubfurt
TRANSIT vol. 14, no. 1 Karolina May-Chu Reimagining the German-Polish Borderlands in Nowa Amerika and Słubfurt[1] Download PDF Abstract Nowa Amerika and Słubfurt are two related activist art projects that are set in the German-Polish borderland. Nowa Amerika is an imagined country, and Słubfurt its capital. This contribution introduces these projects and examines their underlying […]
All Culture Is Remix: Confluences against Nationalist Narratives
Ambika Athreya, Ph.D. Candidate in German Studies at UC Berkeley, reflects on how Ilija Trojanow and Ranjit Hoskote challenge nationalist narratives and cultural essentialism in their co-authored essayistic monograph, Confluences: Forgotten Stories from East and West (2012). In conversation with Chunjie Zhang at the “Archives of Migration: The Power of Fiction in Times of Fake […]