a journal of cities and culture
Lisbon: tiny boat lights flicker in the darkness of the port at night, a boy skates back and forth in a courtyard in the bright daylight, sounds from the home blend with traffic noise from the street below, city life …
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In a conference that brought together so many political activists of the long 1968—including Tariq Ali, Kathleen Cleaver, and Mark Rudd—alongside numerous academic historians, it is unsurprising that there were tensions, at times voiced and at others latent: between activism …
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In the second part of our Visualizing Spatial Injustice Q&A, the symposium organizers spoke to the London-based artist and filmmaker Miranda Pennell about her work following her keynote talk at the University of Kent. [You can read the introduction and …
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On March 14, the opening night of the annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media studies – held this year in Toronto – a panel of practitioners and curators gathered to discuss Toronto’s built form. Or that was …
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Jinny Yu’s mixed-media piece Black Matter (2013) materializes some of the oppositions that are endemic to the diasporic experience. As Homi K. Bhabha suggested in a recent keynote address, the experience of displacement lends itself to a series of oppositions …
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