In the Trauerspiel, Benjamin theorizes allegory as an imposed historical condition rather than an aesthetic choice. Historical circumstances assign and deprive things of value. Benjamin wrote, “Allegory is in the realm of thought what ruins are in the realm of buildings.” In epistemological terms, an allegory presents elements that attain meaning only by citing another element successively; It is a function depending on multiple variables unable to attain a stable result. The operation that accepts that something is missing from the star, but this acceptance does not led the process to a halt but rather to en endless search. This continuous search is reflected in the operation that DCA undertake in their intervention of the Altes Museum’s
