A caring Beijing through public fitness equipment

Vermeeren, Laura

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 8June 9, 2023<June 9, 2023

A caring Beijing through public fitness equipment

Laura Vermeeren

Laura Vermeeren examines the proliferation of state-sponsored outdoor fitness areas in Beijing. Often used by retirees, these “senior playgrounds” embody both Chinese philosophies of wellbeing and neoliberal practices of self-care.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 8June 6, 2023<June 7, 2023

Forever Infrastructures: Memorialization and Care in Australia’s Urban Cemeteries

Samuel Holleran

Samuel Holleran discusses urban cemeteries as a kind of “deathcare infrastructure” and considers the questions of capacity, maintenance, and care that surround their presence in Australian cities.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 7June 23, 2022<June 23, 2022

Where is it Safe to Make Television? COVID, “Don’t Say Gay,” and the Instability of Spatial Capital

Myles McNutt

Myles McNutt looks at how the issue of safety is redrawing the map of US television production, from Covid-19 to new forms of discriminative legislation on issues such as abortion and LGBTQ+ rights.

Dossiers, no. 1, vol. 7May 4, 2022<May 4, 2022

Labor Immobility in Hollywood’s (Pandemic) Supply Chain Media

Kate Fortmueller

How have Hollywood’s production networks responded to disruptions in global supply chains? Kate Fortmueller examines the logistics of making film and television during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dossiers, no. 1, vol. 7April 20, 2022<May 4, 2022

Loading…The Streaming Industry in the Pandemic and its Supply Chains

Tyler Klatt

In the first installment of a dossier on scarcity and the supply chain crisis, Tyler Klatt explores how the media industries have been affected by the global computer chip shortage related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

no. 4, Q & A, vol. 6September 16, 2021<March 31, 2023

The Mediapolis Q&A: Mara Ferreri’s The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism and Ella Harris’s Rebranding Precarity

Mara Ferreri and Ella Harris

Mara Ferreri and Ella Harris discuss their books The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism: Normalising Precarity in Austerity London and Rebranding Precarity: Pop-Up Culture as the Seductive New Normal.

Dossiers, Mediapolis on Coronavirus, no. 3, vol. 6June 14, 2021<June 14, 2021

Aesthetics of Vacancy in Lockdown London

Christoph Lindner

Christoph Lindner introduces a six-part dossier on Lockdown Aesthetics and Gentrification. In this opening post, he argues that gentrification has accelerated in London under the cover of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aesthetics of vacancy.

Dossiers, Mediapolis on Coronavirus, no. 3, vol. 6June 14, 2021<June 14, 2021

Aesthetic Activism and the Quest for Authenticity in a Time of Crisis

Brandi T. Summers

The global pandemic has exposed fissures of race and class in Washington DC. Brandi Summers examines how the aesthetics of blackness have been co-opted in the gentrifying city during a period of crisis.

Dossiers, Mediapolis on Coronavirus, no. 3, vol. 6June 14, 2021<September 1, 2021

Gentrification and the White Spatial Imaginary: Notes from Little Tokyo in Lockdown

Jonathan Jae-an Crisman

COVID-19 has created new challenges for community activism in Los Angeles. Jonathan Jae-an Crisman discusses gains and setbacks for Little Tokyo's anti-gentrification arts activists during the pandemic.

Dossiers, Mediapolis on Coronavirus, no. 3, vol. 6June 14, 2021<June 14, 2021

A Pandemic in the Design City: Montreal During a Quiet Time

Guillaume Sirois

The COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted Montreal’s efforts to become a “design city.” Guillaume Sirois scrutinizes the city’s urban design policies and examines the impact of lockdown on its design boutiques and flagship public spaces.

Dossiers, Mediapolis on Coronavirus, no. 3, vol. 6June 14, 2021<June 14, 2021

Streets for People of Las Vegas

Susanna Phillips Newbury

Susanna Phillips Newbury looks at zoning, urban development, and gentrification in Las Vegas before and during the pandemic, critiquing the city government’s claims to make “Streets for People.”

Commentary, no. 2, vol. 6April 6, 2021<April 14, 2021

Projections that Give: Cauleen Smith’s COVID Manifesto (2020)

Malini Guha

Malini Guha discusses filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist Cauleen Smith's month-long projection COVID Manifesto. She argues that, unlike methods of surplus accumulation that ensure neoliberal capitalism, the piece gives viewers time to pause, process, and grieve during the pandemic without asking for anything in return.