VV(11): This Side of the Rail

[Dave Monroe]

But before I run, encirclement, not only the various
seiges (of Malta, Foppl's Seige Party, whatever) in
V., but am also reminded of various Modernist urban
projects, see, e.g. ...

Schorske, Carl E. Fin-de-Siecle Vienna:
   Politics and Culture. New York: Vintage,
   1980.

On the politics of boulevard or whatever encircling
Vienna,  The Ringstrasse.  Almost diagrammatic,
drawing that line betwixt in and out, we and they,
preterite and elect, and so forth.  Anyway, stumbled
across an interview with Schorske at ...

http://www.austriaculture.net/AKFindeSiecle1617.html

But much of interest here covered in Schorske's book:
Wittgenstein, Freud, Modernism, the "Jewish question,"
not to mention Musil, Klimt, Kokoscka, Schiele, et al.
...

--- Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at hotmail.com> wrote:
 
> ... which like many theme parks, is encicled by a
> train ride, perhaps even a 
> monorail.  Indeed, this is a characteristic of many
> such utopian spaces, 
> from Expositions to "Garden Cities" to World Fairs
> to amusment parks ...

 
> But what of this side of the rail?
 

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