Reimagining the German-Polish Borderlands in Nowa Amerika and Slubfurt1

IF 1.7 4区工程技术 Q4 TRANSPORTATION

Urban Rail Transit Pub Date : 2023-10-02 DOI:10.5070/t714162194

Karolina May-Chu

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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 cosmopolitan principles and their strategies of reality construction and performance. The analysis highlights how Nowa Amerika intervenes in the borderland’s spatial and temporal reality and creates new narratives that challenge established political, cultural, and social boundaries. On the one hand, the projects engage critically with existing borders and produce a cosmopolitan vision for the borderland by playfully subverting the borders of the nation state: They remap the borderland as a shared space, for example, through the creation of new cartographies or by bringing people together to form cross-border networks within the local community. On the other hand, their decided focus on the present and future means that historical context is at times oversimplified or elided, thus blurring the cosmopolitan vision. This article invites thinking about the tensions and difficulties that are embedded in cosmopolitan projects, as well as the challenges and taboos in the relationship between Germany and Poland.

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重新想象当代美国和斯拉弗特的德波边境

Nowa america和Słubfurt是两个相关的激进主义艺术项目，它们以德国和波兰边境为背景。现在，美国是一个想象中的国家，Słubfurt是它的首都。这篇文章介绍了这些项目，并考察了它们潜在的世界性原则以及它们的现实构建和表现策略。分析强调了“当代美国”如何介入边境地区的空间和时间现实，并创造了挑战既定政治、文化和社会界限的新叙事。一方面，这些项目与现有的边界进行批判性的接触，并通过颠覆民族国家的边界，为边境地区创造一个世界主义的愿景:例如，通过创建新的地图，或者通过将人们聚集在一起，在当地社区内形成跨境网络，他们将边境地区重新绘制为共享空间。另一方面，他们对现在和未来的关注意味着历史背景有时被过度简化或省略，从而模糊了世界主义的视野。这篇文章让我们思考世界性项目中所蕴含的紧张和困难，以及德国和波兰关系中的挑战和禁忌。

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3.10

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6.70%

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5 weeks

期刊介绍： Urban Rail Transit is a peer-reviewed, international, interdisciplinary and open-access journal published under the SpringerOpen brand that provides a platform for scientists, researchers and engineers of urban rail transit to publish their original, significant articles on topics in urban rail transportation operation and management, design and planning, civil engineering, equipment and systems and other related topics to urban rail transit. It is to promote the academic discussions and technical exchanges among peers in the field. The journal also reports important news on the development and operating experience of urban rail transit and related government policies, laws, guidelines, and regulations. It could serve as an important reference for decision¬makers and technologists in urban rail research and construction field. Specific topics cover: Column I: Urban Rail Transportation Operation and Management • urban rail transit flow theory, operation, planning, control and management • traffic and transport safety • traffic polices and economics • urban rail management • traffic information management • urban rail scheduling • train scheduling and management • strategies of ticket price • traffic information engineering & control • intelligent transportation system (ITS) and information technology • economics, finance, business & industry • train operation, control • transport Industries • transportation engineering Column II: Urban Rail Transportation Design and Planning • urban rail planning • pedestrian studies • sustainable transport engineering • rail electrification • rail signaling and communication • Intelligent & Automated Transport System Technology ? • rolling stock design theory and structural reliability • urban rail transit electrification and automation technologies • transport Industries • transportation engineering Column III: Civil Engineering • civil engineering technologies • maintenance of rail infrastructure • transportation infrastructure systems • roads, bridges, tunnels, and underground engineering ? • subgrade and pavement maintenance and performance Column IV: Equipments and Systems • mechanical-electronic technologies • manufacturing engineering • inspection for trains and rail • vehicle-track coupling system dynamics, simulation and control • superconductivity and levitation technology • magnetic suspension and evacuated tube transport • railway technology & engineering • Railway Transport Industries • transport & vehicle engineering Column V: other topics of interest • modern tram • interdisciplinary transportation research • environmental impacts such as vibration, noise and pollution Article types: • Papers. Reports of original research work. • Design notes. Brief contributions on current design, development and application work; not normally more than 2500 words (3 journal pages), including descriptions of apparatus or techniques developed for a specific purpose, important experimental or theoretical points and novel technical solutions to commonly encountered problems. • Rapid communications. Brief, urgent announcements of significant advances or preliminary accounts of new work, not more than 3500 words (4 journal pages). The most important criteria for acceptance of a rapid communication are novel and significant. For these articles authors must state briefly, in a covering letter, exactly why their works merit rapid publication. • Review articles. These are intended to summarize accepted practice and report on recent progress in selected areas. Such articles are generally commissioned from experts in various field s by the Editorial Board, but others wishing to write a review article may submit an outline for preliminary consideration.