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no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5March 16, 2020

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

By Annie Dell'Aria

[Ed. note: this post is part of a Roundtable discussion on “Porousness and Cities.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

Questions of aesthetics and access, which Sabine brought …

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5February 27, 2020

Feminist Protocols: Auditing Urban Infrastructures and Reporting Gender Violence in the City

By Carrie Rentschler

[Ed. note: this post is part of a Roundtable discussion on “Porousness and Cities.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

I have been thinking about how the notion …

no. 2, Q & A, Reviewed, vol. 4June 22, 2019

The Mediapolis Q&A: Welcome to Fear City with Nathan Holmes

By Noelle Griffis

In this installment of our continuing series of conversations with authors of new books on cities and urban culture, reviews editor Noelle Griffis talks with Nathan Holmes, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at Purchase College – SUNY. His book, Welcome …

no. 5, Q & A, Reviewed, vol. 2December 29, 2017

The Mediapolis Q&A: Pamela Robertson Wojcik on Fantasies of Neglect

By Noelle Griffis

In this installment of our continuing series of conversations with authors of new books on cities and urban culture, reviews editor Noelle Griffis talks with Pamela Robertson Wojcik. Her new book, Fantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child in American …

Deep Dives, no. 3, vol. 2September 15, 2017

The Truth is Outsourcing: Notes on the Post-Industrial Spaces of The X-Files

By Kirk Boyle

Any mass media phenomenon as big as The X-Files, the hit television series that initially aired on Fox from 1993 to 2002, will serve as a cultural Rorschach Test. How critics read X-Files will tell us as much about …