Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements 1
Tales:
1 Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue 3
2 Hello 26
3 Umeå Volcano 31
4 Oxygenator 39
5 Camping Jenin 58
6 The Uhyst Refugee Asylum 72
7 The Bat 76
8 Basia 80
9 Minaret 83
10 Benjamin in Konya 99
11 Last Summer in Obersalzberg 113
12 Kino Dziga, Red Lion and Comstar 117
13 Sumpfstadt 126
14 Born in Berlin 131
15 Final Fantasies 141
16 The Peterborough Child 147
17 Forcing a Miracle 160
Epilogue:
a Too Long a Childhood 165
b I Hear Sounds Inside My Head 172
Texts:
a Dedicated to the Polis. Jan Verwoert 174
b The Museum of Nothing and Other Berlin Legends. Sebastian Cichocki 177
Brainwaves:
a The Task of the Translator. Walter Benjamin 182
b The Mythologization of Reality. Bruno Schulz 196
c A Treatise on Mannequins, or, The Second Book of Genesis. Bruno Schulz 199
Interviews:
a The World which Must be Seen 205
b I am Not Easily Surprised 214
c The Art of Public Possibility 219
d On Power and Powerlessness 238
e All That's Left in Me is Dead Space 245
f I Wanted it to Burn 264
Appendix: Project Descriptions and Credits 268
Endnotes 294
