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Reinhold Martin

Graduate School of Architecture,

Planning, and Preservation

400 Avery Hall

Columbia University

New York, NY 10027

USA

E‐mail: [email protected]

An earlier version of this text appeared in the Newsletter of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University (fall 2002/spring 2003). I am grateful to Gil Anidjar for his thoughts there and elsewhere on the subject.

Herbert Muschamp, “Filling the Void: A Chance to Soar,” New York Times 30 Sept. 2001, Arts & Leisure 1.

Reinhold Martin, “One or More,” Grey Room 07 (spring 2002): 114–23.

Thomas Friedman expanding on the words of Shimon Peres, as quoted in Muschamp, “Filling the Void” 1.

Max Protetch, “A New World Trade Center: Exhibition Overview,” available <http://www.maxprotetch.com/SITE/PREVIOUS/ANEWWTC/index.html⟩ (accessed Mar. 2004).

Max Protetch, “A New World Trade Center: Foreign Office Architects Bunch Tower,” available ⟨http://www.maxprotetch.com/SITE/PREVIOUS/ANEWWTC/FOA/index.html⟩ (accessed Mar. 2004).

Max Protetch, “A New World Trade Center: Greg Lynn FORM, A New World Trade Center,” available ⟨http://www.maxprotetch.com/SITE/PREVIOUS/ANEWWTC/FORM/index.html⟩ (accessed Mar. 2004).

Ibid.

Herbert Muschamp, “Thinking Big: A Plan for Ground Zero and Beyond,” New York Times Magazine 8 Sept. 2002: 55.

Ibid. 58.

Ibid. 46.

Ibid. 53.

Manfredo Tafuri and Francesco Dal Co, Modern Architecture (New York: Rizzoli, 1986) 2: 311.

Muschamp, “Thinking Big” 58.

LMDC, “Lower Manhattan Development Corporation Announces Six Teams of Architects and Planners to Participate in Design Study of World Trade Center Site: Noted Architects and Planners from Around the World Come Together to Help Shape the Future of Lower Manhattan,” available ⟨http://www.renewnyc.org/ News/DisplayStory.asp‐id=39.htm⟩ (accessed Mar. 2004).

See, for example, Greg Lynn, Folds, Bodies and Blobs: Collected Essays (Brussels: La Lettre volée, 1998); Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, Move (The Netherlands: UN Studio & Goose Press, 1999); Farshid Moussavi, Alejandro Zaera‐Polo et al., Phylogenesis: FOA's Ark, Foreign Office Architects (Barcelona: Actar, 2004).

Slavoj Žižek, “The Ongoing ‘Soft Revolution,’” Critical Inquiry 30.2 (2004): 292. See also Žižek, Organs without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences (New York: Routledge, 2004) 183.

Žižek, Organs without Bodies 183–95.

LMDC, “Introduction,” available ⟨http://www.renewnyc.com/plan_des_dev/wtc_site/new_design_plans/firm_f/default.asp.htm⟩ (accessed Mar. 2004).

Herbert Muschamp, “The Latest Round of Designs Rediscover and Celebrate the Vertical Life,” New York Times 19 Dec. 2002: B10.

Editorial, “Larger Visions for Downtown,” New York Times 12 Oct. 2002: A20.

Editorial, “Visions for Ground Zero,” New York Times 19 Dec. 2002: A38.

Herbert Muschamp, “In Latest Concepts for Ground Zero, it's Reality vs. Renaissance,” New York Times 23 Dec. 2002: E1.

Mark C. Taylor, “Beyond Mourning, Building Hope on Ground Zero,” New York Times 29 Dec. 2002, Arts & Leisure 40.

Herbert Muschamp, “Balancing Reason and Emotion in Twin Towers Void,” New York Times, 26 Feb. 2003: E1.

Ibid. E5.

Ibid.

Muschamp, “The Latest Round of Designs Rediscover and Celebrate the Vertical Life” B10.

Muschamp, “Balancing Reason and Emotion in Twin Towers Void” E5.

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Reinhold Martin Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation 400 Avery Hall Columbia University New York, NY 10027 USA E‐mail: [email protected]