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…
Vol. 4 № 1
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
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.
‘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
Race, Place, and New Orleans in Film and Television
In this post, Helen Morgan Parmett takes stock of some of the ways in which media culture and practice, and particularly film and television, has helped to shape discourses of New Orleans historically and the ways in which more recent shifts in the city’s post-Katrina cultural economy have implicated the industrial conditions of media in the city as well as its global representation.
Previous Issue
The Horizons of Platformed Urban Politics
In this wrap up to the Platform Urbanism roundtable, Scott Rodgers and Susan Moore argue that horizons of a platformed urban politics should entail critical engagement and practice.
“Highest and Best Use” from the Plan to the Platform
John Stehlin considers the historical resonances and specificity of platform urbanism.
On the Slippages in Platform Urbanisms
Matthew Wilson argues that, as a form of “self-city-nation,” platform urbanisms enable slippages between the self and outside organizing forces that expand logics of quantification.
Platform Urbanism Rejoinder: Why now? What now?
Sarah Barns uses Henri Lefebvre’s theories of the quotidian to consider platform urbanism as a mode of ‘everyday’ urban intervention.
We Are All Platform Urbanists, But Not All in the Same Way
Maroš Krivý asks whether platforms contribute to the dynamics of uneven urban development itself.
Platforms as urban technology?
Lizzie Richardson’s followup post explores urban plan forms as technologies of urban life.