Uploaded May 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this lecture, Molly Loberg (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo) explores consumer culture in a period of crisis in Berlin, the shared geographies and techniques of commerce and politics, and the ways that urban space magnified impressions of fracture. The talk concludes with the questions that Berlin’s interwar streets raise about modern cities and our own times, most fundamentally: Who owns the street?
In this lecture, Molly Loberg (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo) explores consumer culture in a period of crisis in Berlin, the shared geographies and techniques of commerce and politics, and the ways that urban space magnified impressions of fracture. The talk concludes with the questions that Berlin’s interwar streets raise about modern cities and our own times, most fundamentally: Who owns the street?
