This special issue explores how demilitarization and repurposing are still playing out within abandoned military bunkers of the Cold War era, 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Noting that the physical erasure of these bulky defensive fortifications is practically impossible, the Introduction shows how the contributors’ common concern is to explore the ways in which new uses and new meanings are applied to these stubborn structures. By adopting a notably broad definition of ‘cultural production’ (one which can accommodate mould, acoustics and irony as cultural phenomena) the Introduction demonstrates how the contributors find these places — through their embodied exploration and archival enquiry — to be anything but dead or trapped by their past militaristic purposes. Instead, the bunker’s after-life is found to be a matter of ongoing cultural production, acting out through a variety of contemporary appropriations: some of them contested and some of them playfully indeterminate.

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简介：掩体的来世：冷战遗迹中的文化生产

本期专刊探讨了柏林墙倒塌30年后的冷战时代废弃军事掩体中如何继续进行非军事化和重新调整目标。引言指出，实际上不可能对这些庞大的防御工事进行物理擦除，因此，导言显示了贡献者的共同关切是如何探索将新用途和新含义应用于这些顽固结构的方式。引言通过对“文化生产”采用了一个非常广泛的定义（一种可以容纳霉菌，声学和反讽作为文化现象的概念），从而展示了贡献者如何通过其具体的探索和档案探究发现这些地方，除了死里头外还是被困住了。他们过去的军事目的。代替，