AFTER THE WALL: SPATIAL MEMORY AND THE POSTHUMAN ARCHIVE IN DAVID HARE’S BERLIN
Cogito, cilt.18, sa.2, ss.204-218, 2026 (Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 18 Sayı: 2
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Dergi Adı: Cogito
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.204-218
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Berlin/Wall, David Hare, Posthuman Archive, Spatial Memory, Urban Palimpsest
- Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This article reads David Hare's Berlin (2009) as a form of posthuman historiography in which memory is no longer anchored in human subjectivity but distributed across urban space, material traces, and perceptual experience. Rather than dramatizing the Fall of the Berlin Wall as a moment of political closure, the monologue foregrounds its afterlife, staging Berlin as a layered archive in which historical divisions persist in spatial form. Drawing on philosophical posthumanism and spatial theory, the article argues that David Hare displaces the human observer as the primary bearer of history and instead constructs the city itself as a dynamic site of memory production. The monologue's essayistic form, characterized by a single reflective voice and the absence of dramatic action, reinforces this shift by privileging perception over representation. Ultimately, Berlin reveals how geopolitical rupture continues to structure experience not as narrative resolution but as distributed, material memory embedded in the urban environment.