Screens in Public Space: Questions of Aesthetics and Access in a Moment of Social Distancing

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5March 16, 2020<January 27, 2023

Screens in Public Space: Questions of Aesthetics and Access in a Moment of Social Distancing

Annie Dell'Aria

Annie Dell’Aria discusses screen media’s potential to make both public space and private space—during times of social distancing—more porous.

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5March 11, 2020<January 27, 2023

Activist Media and Distributional Aesthetics in the City

Carrie Rentschler

Carrie Rentschler explores urban porosity via a feminist infrastructural focus on key points of transfer and transit in the city that activists target for change using a range of aesthetic and political strategies

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5March 8, 2020<January 27, 2023

Urban Pores as Media: Questions of Aesthetics and Access

Sabine Haenni

Sabine Haenni's introduction to the second round explores pores as media, biology, and as form.

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5February 17, 2020<January 27, 2023

Introduction: The Porous City

Sabine Haenni

Sabine Haenni introduces the new Roundtable with some reflections on the meanings of the porous and the historical origins of the idea of the porous city.

no. 4, RoundtablesOctober 31, 2018<October 31, 2018

(Im)Permeable History: Notebook on Cities and Clothes (pt. 2)

Thomas Elsaesser

Thomas Elsaesser traces Wim Wenders and Yohji Yamamoto's intertwined history through personal upheavals and national trauma to arrive, unexpectedly, at Weimar photography.

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3October 28, 2018<October 28, 2018

Urban Palimpsests and the City Essay Film

Igor Krstić

Igor Krstić reflects on the first round of The Essay Film and the City" and opens the second by asking contributors to rethink the classic metaphor of the urban as palimpsest.

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3October 26, 2018<October 26, 2018

We Are All Platform Urbanists Now

Sarah Barns

Sarah Barns argues that a platform urbanism should be more than a focus of academic critique, but also a site for radical appropriations of urban space.

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3October 24, 2018<November 5, 2018

Platforms and the Publicness of Urban Markets

Lizzie Richardson

Lizzie Richardson revises our assumptions about digital platforms like Uber and the privatization of public urban space.

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3October 19, 2018<October 20, 2018

Notebook on Cities and Clothes: Wim Wenders Takes to the (Inner Ring) Road

Thomas Elsaesser

Thomas Elsaesser reconsiders some of Wim Wenders films through the lens of the city and the essay, discovering new dialogic and self-reflexive qualities within them.

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3October 18, 2018<October 18, 2018

Streets & Screens

Iván Villarmea Álvarez

Iván Villarmea Álvarez explores the perspectives that local and outsider filmmakers bring to the essay film.

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3October 17, 2018<October 17, 2018

The Fiction of Beirut: Reframing Labour Migration in Ziad Kalthoum’s Taste of Cement

Brenda Hollweg

Brenda Hollweg shows how Taste of Cement, part of the recent global growth of the essay film, explores Beirut through the perspective of its migrant workforce, unearthing the city's history and role in regional conflicts, as well as flows of labor.

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3October 16, 2018<October 16, 2018

The Diachronic Flâneur

Laura Rascaroli

Is the critical gaze on the city always a wandering gaze? Laura Rascaroli works through questions of usage and explores how the essay film thinks through its practices.