The Mediapolis Q&A: Erica Stein’s Seeing Symphonically
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Erica Stein discusses her book, Seeing Symphonically: Avant-Garde Film, Urban Planing, and the Utopian Image of New York, with Paula J. Massood.
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Events Episode 1: Predictive Cities with Manu Luksch, Melissa Butcher, Sarah Keenan and Joel McKim
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In the latest episode of our Events podcast series, Manu Luksch, Melissa Butcher, Sarah Keenan and Joel McKim discuss the Predictive Cities VR Exhibition, specially available to Mediapolis listeners and readers until the end of 2021.
Tosaka Jun’s Spatial Theory and Reflections on Film
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Yoon Jeong Oh revisits Tosaka Jun's critical interpretations of Japanese society and cultural criticism, arguing that in his writing on post-WWI Japan, Tosaka problematizes the everyday and reinstates heterogeneous temporalities by restoring the social space occupied by the people who live, work, and move about the city streets.
Mediapolis Q&A: Germaine R. Halegoua’s The Digital City
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Rahul Mukherjee leads a discussion with Germaine R. Halegoua on her book The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place.
Robotic Logics of Public Space in the COVID Pandemic
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A group of interdisciplinary researchers from Monash University examines urban robotics as an emerging possibility for the colonization of public space due to the absence of humans in the lockdown city.
Culture in the Mediapolis
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Helen Morgan Parmett and Conn Holohan introduce this installment of Student Voices. First, Helen Morgan Parmett discusses the themes of her seminar course, "Culture in the Mediapolis," from which student essays in the section are drawn. Morgan Parmett emphasizes the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic influenced the course and her students. Holohan then provides an introduction to the short films students' submitted as part of the section's special feature on student responses to the pandemic.
The Mediapolis Q&A: Caitlin Bruce’s Painting Publics
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Claire King interviews Caitlin Bruce on her new book, Painting Publics: Transnational Legal Graffiti Scenes as Spaces for Encounter
Screens in Public Space: Questions of Aesthetics and Access in a Moment of Social Distancing
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Annie Dell’Aria discusses screen media’s potential to make both public space and private space—during times of social distancing—more porous.
Feminist Protocols: Auditing Urban Infrastructures and Reporting Gender Violence in the City
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Carrie Rentschler on feminist and anti-racist practices in the porous urban spaces and surfaces of chalking, graffiti, and postering
The Mediapolis Q&A: Welcome to Fear City with Nathan Holmes
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Nathan Holmes discusses his new book Welcome to Fear City: Crime Film, Crisis, and the Urban Imagination with Mediapolis Reviews Editor Noelle Griffis.
The Mediapolis Q&A: Pamela Robertson Wojcik on Fantasies of Neglect
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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 about her new book on the figure of the child in American urban film and fiction.
The Truth is Outsourcing: Notes on the Post-Industrial Spaces of The X-Files
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Kirk Boyle looks anew at The X-Files, finding in Mulder and Scully evidence of the coming of the post-industrial society.