This article examines the Tirana Independence Monument, first inaugurated in November of 2012 on the hundredth anniversary of Albanian independence from the Ottoman Empire. The monument, designed by Visar Obrija and Kai Roman Kiklas, swiftly fell into disrepair until it was recently renovated in November of 2015. The article analyzes the monument’s function in terms of its doubled existence as a sign of perpetual natality (the possibility of the rebirth of national consciousness) and as a ruin with a spectral pseudo-presence (as an object that continually reminds us of the disjunctures that divorce the present from its historicity). It considers the way the monument’s inauguration relates to the politics of monumentality in contemporary Albania, and argues that the monument’s gradual ruination between 2012 and 2015 can be read as a particular manifestation of the history of the image in late capitalist society.[1]
本文考察了地拉那独立纪念碑,它于2012年11月阿尔巴尼亚脱离奥斯曼帝国独立100周年之际首次落成。这座纪念碑由Visar Obrija和Kai Roman Kiklas设计,很快就失修了,直到最近在2015年11月进行了翻新。文章分析了纪念碑的功能,从双重存在的角度来看,它既是永恒的本性的标志(民族意识重生的可能性),也是一个具有幽灵般的伪存在的废墟(作为一个不断提醒我们将现在与其历史性分离的断裂的物体)。它认为纪念碑的落成与当代阿尔巴尼亚的纪念性政治有关,并认为纪念碑在2012年至2015年之间的逐渐破坏可以被解读为晚期资本主义社会中形象历史的特殊表现。[1]
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