Urban Investors’ Play with Time: Stakes of the Game and Waiting as Playful Strategy

Albright, Anthony T.  and Frans-Willem Korsten

Frans-Willem Korsten

Frans-Willem Korsten is a professor in Literature, Culture, and Law at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. He participated in the NWO/FWO funded program ‘Imagineering Techniques in the Early Modern Period’ and the NWO funded program ‘Playing Politics: Media Platforms, Making Worlds’. He has published on sovereignty and the Republican baroque, in Sovereignty as Inviolability (Verloren, 2009); A Dutch Republican Baroque (AUP, 2017); and Marketing Violence (Cambridge UP, 2023). He has published on the relation between literature, art, justice and law in Art as an Interface of Law and Justice (Hart, 2021) and Cultural Interactions (AUP, 2022). Urbanism and climate-justice are central in Imagining Urban Complexity: A Humanities Approach in Tropes, Media, and Genres (Routledge, 2024), co-authored with Anthony T. Albright.

Dossiers, no. 3, vol. 10November 10, 2025<November 12, 2025

Urban Investors’ Play with Time: Stakes of the Game and Waiting as Playful Strategy

Anthony Albright and Frans-Willem Korsten

Anthony Albright and Frans Willem Korsten discuss the playful appropriation of a vacant building by a squatters’ group as part of an effort to recapture urban environments from the profit-oriented ‘game’ of waiting by investors.