This is not an attempt at a declaration of love that the Düsseldorf state government is making here.
That is the brash notification from a future that does not want to establish a relationship to its becoming, at least not one that ends up on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
This politicized future does not know that constant object relationships do not contradict historical change, but rather protect it from flat ideas of progress.
The philosopher Wolfram Eilenberger has just shown how the relationship to one's own maturity can also be applied to entire regions. In his book “Das Ruhrgebiet. An attempt at a declaration of love "shows Eilenberger the global relevance of a regional transformation event on the Ruhr that would hang in the air without heritage maintenance:" Because in many respects the Ruhr area is an example of the necessity of a transformation which the western modernity of fossil capitalism in the coming Will have to deal with for decades. The questions of the Ruhr area are therefore to be recognized as questions of all of us, indeed as the planetary questions of the future per se. "For half a century this area has stood for the superhuman task of an entire regioneven to give a whole civilization “a new outlook on life”. Isn't that a world culture?
This claim leaves you speechless
Frank Baranowski, spokesman for the Ruhr-SPD, thinks it is a "pulled by the hair" decision with which the North Rhine-Westphalian state government has now dropped the application of the Ruhr area for the status of world cultural heritage. The application will not be forwarded to the Conference of Ministers of Education due to the Düsseldorf decree. This blocks the procedural step without which nomination for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List is not possible in this country. In fact, the justification of the state government ("fragmentary political support") is no less vulnerable than the apparently quite fragmentary application for the Ruhr Area World Heritage Site itself. Baranowski speaks of 86 percent approval of the relevant municipal bodies for the project, which has now been rejected,therefore the claim of merely "fragmentary political support" leaves him speechless. Beyond the unprofessionalities of all those involved in the procedure, including the immature UNESCO bureaucracy, the non-idea of a successful transformation with which a world heritage is disposed of on the application path is astonishing.