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Our Mediapolis Live series continues with part two of an interview with Dora Apel, author of “Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline.” Here, she and Mediapolis co-editor Brendan Kredell discuss the legacies of Henry Ford and Coleman Young in contemporary Detroit, and the critique of “creative class” urban planning.
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Our Mediapolis Live series continues with an interview with Dora Apel, author of “Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline.” In the first of a two-part series, co-editor Brendan Kredell discusses with Apel her notion of the “deindustrial sublime” and the nomenclature of ruin photography.
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Mark Broughton and Sophia Satchell-Baeza report from Kings College London on the “1968 and Its Legacies” symposium, reflecting on the history – and historiography – of the Long Sixties and tensions between activism and academia.
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In part two of the Mediapolis Q+A, Lawrence Webb continues his conversation with Tim Lawrence about the history of dance music culture in New York City.
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Tim Lawrence is author of three groundbreaking books on the history of dance music culture in New York City. He sits down with Lawrence Webb to discuss the importance of space and place to writing music history, the extraordinary cultural fertility of New York, and the convergences between disco, punk, and hip-hop in the early 1980s.
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Our coverage of “Film, Media, and Toronto’s Built Environment” continues with a presentation from filmmaker and architect Joseph Clement.
In the second part of our Visualizing Spatial Injustice Q&A, the symposium organizers spoke to the London-based artist and filmmaker Miranda Pennell about her work…
The organizers of Kent’s recent Visualising Spatial Injustice conference reflect on it and interview one of their keynote speakers, Alberto Toscano.
[Ed. note: this post is part of a Student Voices section on Hong Kong, Shanghai, cities, screens, and spectacle. For more background on the…
[Ed. note: this post is part of a Student Voices section on Hong Kong, Shanghai, cities, screens, and spectacle. For more background on the…
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.
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.
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.
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.
In this essay, Calvin Badger, a student at Indiana University, analyzes the extent to which individuals can express agency vis a vis public screens in Shanghai and Hong Kong, considering the ways in which those screens are bound up with relations of power in the city.
In this essay, Naomi Farahan, a student at Indiana University, analyzes ways in which public screens in Shanghai and Hong Kong work as forms of enchantment, questioning precisely for whom this enchantment is intended.
Stephanie DeBoer introduces a new installment of Student Voices by situating her students’ essays on Hong Kong and Shanghai in discussions of public screens, global publics, and the dispositif.
In this essay, Kyle Winkel, a student at Indiana University, considers the ways in which advertisers utilize light art and technology as a way to captivate increasingly desensitized passerby in public screen spectacles in urban Hong Kong.
In this essay, Myalisa Miroballi, a student at Indiana University, discusses the ways in which screen culture pervades the streets of Hong Kong and Shanghai in ways that constitute the cities as aspirational global consumer hubs.
Our coverage of “Film, Media, and Toronto’s Built Environment” continues with a presentation from Jane Corkin, founder of the Corkin Gallery.