The Romanian philosopher Ovidiu Tichindeleanu visits what is left of the Gagarin Youth Center in Moldova. He encounters ruins of unrealized futures: promises of space travel blended with socialist utopia and colonized by liberal postcommunist thought and by time, which breaks glass, corrodes walls, allows plants to grow in cracks.
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