Spatialising the Time-Image : Viewing Renoir through Deleuze and Guattari
Jean Renoir’s vision of space has continued to sustain theorization since André Bazin’s major critical reappraisal of the quintessential French auteur in Cahiers du…
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The Mediapolis Q&A: Joshua Glick on Los Angeles Documentary
Alexander Davis interviews Joshua Glick about his new book, which rethinks Los Angeles as a center of documentary production
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Magical Marinades and Archival Puzzles: An Interview with Jennifer Wild
Working in archives requires an archival sensibility. Jennifer Wild talks with Matt Hauske about her experience working in archives, and on the importance of understanding the archive as a space for generating on-the-ground historical perception.
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‘Unceded’ as Elsewhere: Indigenous-Led Concepts of Architecture at the 2018 Venice Architectural Biennale
Malini Guha explores the recent Venice Architectural Biennale through the Turtle Island Pavilion, where land is wrested from a settler colonial and neoliberal conception of ownership and imagined instead in terms of community building and indigenous sovereignty
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Directing the Consumer’s Attention through Public Screens: A Critical View
[Ed. note: this post is part of a Student Voices section on Hong Kong, Shanghai, cities, screens, and spectacle. For more background on the…
Integrated Spectacle Perpetuation Within Metro China
[Ed. note: this post is part of a Student Voices section on Hong Kong, Shanghai, cities, screens, and spectacle. For more background on the…
Disenchantment of the Spectacle: What Happens When the Lights are Turned Off
In this essay, Madeline Dippel, a student at Indiana University, considers how public screens shape architecture and engagement, particularly when the spectacular lights of the screens are “turned off” creating both sensibilities of enchantment and disenchantment.
Access, Control, and Consent in the Urban Metropolises of Hong Kong and Shanghai
In this essay, Keenan Lacy-Rhodes, a student at Indiana University, discusses the ways in which large public screens communicate and constitutes a global, commercial elite, further exacerbating inequalities within Hong Kong and Shanghai.
The Ordinary vs. The Spectacular
In this essay, Maggie Farwig, a student at Indiana University, considers the ways in which screens manifest in the practices of everyday life in both ordinary and spectacular ways, creating both connections and disconnections and blurring relations between public and private.
Micro to Macro in Hong Kong and Shanghai: How Media Cities View Mega Screens
In this essay, Celia Grubba, a student from Indiana University, discusses the ways in which public screens position and constitute China as global and cosmopolitan.
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An Update on Grenfell
In this conclusion to her two-part look at the Grenfell crisis, Anna Viola Sborgi examines the aftermath of a crisis and the ways in which activists have and have not been successful in ensuring continued focus on the underlying issues.
Of Drones and Angels: GAIKA’s Sonic Images of Urban Resistance
Alessio Kolioulis examines the work of GAIKA – music, videos, and films – and explores the critiques of surveillance and state control running throughout.
The Day Social Housing Hit Mainstream Media
In the first of a two-part look at the Grenfell Tower crisis, Anna Sborgi examines the complicated relationship between the media and social housing in contemporary London.