Karl Schlögel über das, was unser Europa wirklich ausmacht – ein Auszug aus seinem Buch “Marjampole – Oder Europas Wiederkehr aus dem Geist der Städte”.
High-speed routes. Europe is being manufactured year by year, month by month, and day by day. Movement, which holds it together, is its basic mode. If movement were to fail, even for a short time, Europe would disintegrate into its component parts. The manufacturing of Europe can best be observed at certain locations: airports, motorways, and high-speed railroads. The high-speed connections turn big Europe into a small continent. The borders of individual states are crossed before the TGV really gets going. The nation state is too small for high-speed trains.
[Eurozine: Archipelago Europe]
[Perlentaucher: Marjampole – Oder Europas Wiederkehr aus dem Geist der Städte]