This article looks at the contemporary situation of the Hotels Alimentation du Bas-Congo in Kinshasa and Mbanza Ngungu (Democratic Republic of the Congo). The distinctive iron frameworks of these colonial buildings were manufactured in Belgium between circa 1904 and 1911 and sent to the Congo to serve as hotels. I analyse the corporeal state of these remainders of early Belgian colonialism according to the evident manner in which they are entangled with their contemporary surrounds. I pursue the idea that the hybrid identities of buildings that are still very much in use are constructed in an on-going process of interaction with various human and non-human agents. Particular ways in which the former luxury hotels affect—and are affected by—the local networks in which they are embedded allows for speculation regarding what they can tell of long lives spent bearing the weight of their past.

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剩余的生活：刚果铁酒店的当代生活

本文着眼于金沙萨和 Mbanza Ngungu（刚果民主共和国）的 Alimentation du Bas-Congo 酒店的当代情况。这些殖民时期建筑的独特铁框架大约在 1904 年至 1911 年间在比利时制造，并被送往刚果用作酒店。我根据这些早期比利时殖民主义残余物与当代环境纠缠在一起的明显方式来分析这些残余物的肉体状态。我追求这样一个想法，即仍在使用中的建筑物的混合身份是在与各种人类和非人类代理的持续交互过程中构建的。