Home: An Impossible Pursuit?
Anna Viola Sborgi
Anna Viola Sborgi's introduction to the second round explores intersectionality and social mobility as it relates to home.
right to the city
Roland Barthes Plays Pokémon Go: On the Algorithmicized Futures of Everyday Life
David Capener
David Capener reads Henri Lefebvre’s The Right to the City as a useful conceptual framework for understanding and acting in the archive of everyday life—the production of space by new digital technologies.
Mediapolis Q&A: Germaine R. Halegoua’s The Digital City
Rahul Mukherjee
Rahul Mukherjee leads a discussion with Germaine R. Halegoua on her book The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place.
Urban platforms, rent, and the digital built environment
John Stehlin
John Stehlin claims that the urban & the platform are entwined through their mutual creation of landscapes of locational advantage.
Cosmopolis and the Right to the City
Thomas Nail
In this essay, Thomas Nail explores the history of sanctuary cities, and proposes the notion of migrant cosmpolitanism as a means of achieving the right to the city.
Right to the City, or Compulsion to Connect?
Myria Georgiou
In the third essay, Myria Georgiou reflects on the politicized relationships between the right to the city and emergent compulsions to communicate digitally.