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Moving Monuments in the Age of Social Media

In order to understand whether there is any specificity of site left today, which would allow us to even consider terms such as ex situ, we need to see how history and its construction is parsed through new engines of reproduction. This essay does not just claim that contemporary engagement with mon...

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Published in:	Future anterior 2018-12, Vol.15 (2), p.133-144
Main Author:	Widrich, Mechtild
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Subjects:	Architecture Buildings Commemorations Monuments Performance art Performing arts events Public sphere Social media United States history
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