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

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

by Mara Ferreri

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.

no. 3, Threads, vol. 4October 17, 2019<December 19, 2020

The Gamification and Domestication of Slum Voyeurism: From Poverty Porn to Aesthetics of Precarity

by Elmo Gonzaga

In the second part of our Slum series, Elmo Gonzaga probes the ethics of journalistic, cinematic, and gamified images of informal settlements in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong.