This article examines Berlin’s ascendance to the status of a global city and in particular the tethering of this discourse to the city’s attraction for institutions of world literature. Drawing on fieldwork between 2011 and 2017, it offers a new, critical vantage on the multiple trajectories that migrants follow into and through Berlin, as well as how these paths collide. Training ethnographic attention on one important site in which these crossings occur—a literary workshop in a gentrified borough of the former East—reveals long-standing assumptions about the social lives of texts and urban relationships, in which ephemeral forms are understood to be degraded or weak. Mobilizing instead a poetic language of prosody allows us to see how different kinds of circulations are stitched together in the making of everyday life.

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社会关系的韵律

本文考察了柏林在全球城市地位的上升，特别是这种话语与这座城市对世界文学机构的吸引力的联系。借鉴 2011 年至 2017 年间的实地考察，它为移民进入和穿越柏林的多重轨迹以及这些路径如何碰撞提供了一个新的、关键的优势。在发生这些交叉的一个重要地点——在前东方一个绅士化的自治市镇举办的文学研讨会——训练人种学注意力揭示了关于文本和城市关系的社会生活的长期假设，在这些假设中，短暂的形式被理解为退化或虚弱的。调动诗意的韵律语言，让我们看到不同种类的循环如何在日常生活中缝合在一起。