Zizek

En el hoy difunto ‘socialismo realmente existente’ de la Europa Oriental, la escisión era la que existía entre un ritual público de obediencia y una distancia cínica privada, en tanto en Occidente el cinismo, en cierto modo, se redobla: públicamente simulamos ser libres mientras que en privado obedecemos. En ambos casos, somos víctimas de la autoridad precisamente cuando creemos que la hemos embaucado: la distancia cínica está vacía, nuestro verdadero lugar se encuentra en el ritual de la obediencia o, como lo expresó Kurt Vonnegut en su Madre Noche: ‘Somos lo que simulamos ser, de modo que debemos tener cuidado con lo que simulamos ser’.

¡Goza tu síntoma!
Slavoj Zizek

Swamps

Before his presidency was over, Adams was compelled to leave Philadelphia to set up his government shop in the new, barely begun capital of Washington, where the vast, endless streets, which mostly contained no buildings of any kind, were unpaved, muddy cesspools in winter, waiting for summer to transform them into mosquito-infested swamps. Washington, in fact is built on a swamp and, then and now, specialized in gigantic cockroaches, which terrified Abigail, Adam's wife.

Paul Johnson "A history of the American People".

The Mall

Museums and Galleries
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery 9
Arts and Industries Building 4
Freer Gallery of Art 10
Hirshhorn Museum 3
National Air and Space Museum 2
National Gallery of Art 1
National Museum of African Art 5
National Museum of American History 11
National Museum of the American Indian 6
National Museum of Natural History 7
Smithsonian Castle 8
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 13

Monuments and Memorials
Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial 20
Jefferson Memorial 15
Korean War Veterans Memorial 19
Lincoln Memorial 21
Vietnam Veterans Memorial 18
Washington Monument 12
World War II Memorial 17

Parks and Gardens
Tidal Basin 16

Official Buildings
Bureau of Engraving and Printing 14

White House

Galleries

Corcoran Gallery of Art 7

Renwick Gallery 5

Squares

Lafayette Square 3

Washington Circle 17

Historic Buildings

Daughters of the American Revolution 9

Eisenhower Old Executive Office Building 6

George Washington University 15

Hay-Adams Hotel 4

Octagon 8

Watergate Complex 18

Official Buildings

Department of the Interior 11

Federal Reserve Building 12

National Academy of Sciences 13

Organization of the American States 10

State Department 14

Treasury Building 2

The White House 1

Performing Arts Center

Kennedy Center 19

Church

St. Mary’s Episcopal Church 16

Old Downtown

Museums and Galleries
Carnegie Library Building 14
International Spy Museum 19
National Building Museum 22
Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery 18
National Museum of Women in the Arts 13

Statues and Fountains
Benjamin Franklin Statue 8
Mellon Fountain 1

Aquarium
National Aquarium 0

Historic and Official Buildings
FBI Building 5
Ford’s Theatre 15
Martin Luther King Memorial Library 16
MCI Center 20
National Archives 2
National Theater 12
Old Post Office 7
Ronald Reagan Building 6
Willard Hotel 11

Districts, Streets, and Squares
Chinatown 17
Freedom Plaza 9
Pennsylvania Avenue 4

Memorials
National Law Enforcement Officers’ Memorial 21
US Navy Memorial 3

Georgetown

Historic Buildings
Dumbarton Oaks 13
Georgetown University 9
Old Stone House 5
Tudor Place 10
Washington Post Office 7

Streets, Canals, and Harbors
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal 4
M Street 6
N Street 8
Washington Harbor 1
Wisconsin Avenue 2

Churches and Cemeteries
Grace Church 3
Mt. Zion Church 11
Oak Hill Cemetery 12