| Title | Berlin, the Cosmos |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Blood over Soil. Albert Speer’s Heavy Load-Bearing Cylinder, Glacial Till, and Racial Terra-Forming |
| Contributor | Paul Kurek (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.63308/63897247289532.ess08 |
| Landing page | https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2025/11/05/graspingsoil/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Paul Kurek |
| Publisher | The White Horse Press |
| Published on | 2026-03-01 |
| Page range | pp. 169–192 |
| Print length | 24 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Media | 7 illustrations |
Paul Kurek is a Postdoc in the Society of Fellows and an Assistant Professor of Ger- man at the University of Michigan. His current book project, Heavy Load-Bearing Modernity: A Cultural Geology of Albert Speer’s Berlin/Germania, unpacks the intellectual and material history of the so-called heavy load-bearing cylinder, arguably history’s heaviest memorial.