This city has made me into what i am becoming. No. Parts of this city have made me into what i am becoming. Therefore, my love for this city is partial, as all love necessarily is. This does not mean that it is worth less, in contrast, this is the basis for any worth at all. Every city has parts, and every person in a city is a part of said parts. And the love i feel for this city is based in this reality. The ways in which i live in this city are based in this reality. The ways in which i want to change this city are based in this reality.

It isn’t easy to feel at home, to co-create the feeling of a fragment of home*. And ‘home’ will always have limits (spatial, temporal, ecological, social). And ‘home’ isn’t a binary state, home yes or no, 1 or 0. Home is and will always stay a process, necessitating constant co-creation, connection across-with difference, repetition and effort. This city is where and when so far i have felt this process most intensely. It is where i have been a more active actor in this process than ever before. And that, above all else, is why i love parts of this city.

• specifically not in a Germany returning (in parts) to fascism and continuing (wholly) to be as capitalist as ever