a journal of cities and culture
Anna Viola Sborgi considers how recent documentary films reconfigure porosity as permeability, and reflects on questions of social inclusion in the city under lockdown.
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Erin Schlumpf thinks through the spatial politics of slow cinema and orders to shelter in place.
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Annie Dell’Aria discusses screen media’s potential to make both public space and private space—during times of social distancing—more porous.
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Carrie Rentschler explores urban porosity via a feminist infrastructural focus on key points of transfer and transit in the city that activists target for change using a range of aesthetic and political strategies
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Sabine Haenni’s introduction to the second round explores pores as media, biology, and as form.
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Hai Ren rethinks the creative city away from its anthropocentricism and toward a nonhuman art intelligence
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Filmmaker Ariel Nasr explains the premises and production history of The Forbidden Reel, a documentary about the Afghan film archive reflecting the social-political structures of Afghanistan and its capital Kabul.
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The China-Africa engagement has been a heated topic of debate for the past decade, not only in academia, but also with the general public….
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Caitlin Bruce reports on urban art and social movements in Bogotá.
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Carrie Rentschler on feminist and anti-racist practices in the porous urban spaces and surfaces of chalking, graffiti, and postering
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