Camouflaging Ukrainian Women
Rebecca Adelman
Rebecca Adelman argues that news reports about Ukrainian women making camouflage tend to trivialize their contribution
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Matter Out of Place: Rewatching Parajanov in 2022
Catriona Kelly
Catriona Kelly returns to Sergei Parajanov’s Kyiv Frescoes (1966) to find that the film, intended to commemorate ‘the Great Patriotic War’, speaks to the current tragic moment
Creating and Enforcing Moscow’s Aesthetic of War
James Gregg
Contrasting sanitized representations of the war on buildings in central Moscow with accounts from Ukrainian media, James Gregg looks at the Putin regime’s attempts to control the narrative
Online Patriots and Traitors: The War, Authoritarianism, and State-Sponsored Digital Vigilantism in Russia
Maxim Alyukov
Maxim Alyukov looks at how the Putin regime is encouraging digital vigilantism to crack down on anti-war dissent
Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Celebrity Apparatus
Kelly McGee
Examining the impact of his fictional celebrity persona on recent global events, Kelly McGee explores how Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s presidency brings new considerations to the forefront of celebrity and media studies.
Labor Immobility in Hollywood’s (Pandemic) Supply Chain Media
Kate Fortmueller
How have Hollywood’s production networks responded to disruptions in global supply chains? Kate Fortmueller examines the logistics of making film and television during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Archive as Pulp: In and through Kağıthane
Merve Ünsal
Merve Ünsal explores the neighborhood of Kagithane (House of Paper) in Istanbul, Turkey, which was formerly a hub of paper production. Ünsal examines the paper supply crisis in Turkey through the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood, which is home to the Ottoman state archives.
Loading…The Streaming Industry in the Pandemic and its Supply Chains
Tyler Klatt
In the first installment of a dossier on scarcity and the supply chain crisis, Tyler Klatt explores how the media industries have been affected by the global computer chip shortage related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aesthetic Activism and the Quest for Authenticity in a Time of Crisis
Brandi T. Summers
The global pandemic has exposed fissures of race and class in Washington DC. Brandi Summers examines how the aesthetics of blackness have been co-opted in the gentrifying city during a period of crisis.
Aesthetics of Vacancy in Lockdown London
Christoph Lindner
Christoph Lindner introduces a six-part dossier on Lockdown Aesthetics and Gentrification. In this opening post, he argues that gentrification has accelerated in London under the cover of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aesthetics of vacancy.
How Mobility-by-Proxy Aesthetically Gentrifies Amsterdam’s Empty Streets
Daan Wesselman
How have bike delivery services changed the aesthetics and politics of the cityscape during lockdown? Daan Wesselman discusses mobility-by-proxy, visual branding, and "gentrification on wheels" in Amsterdam.
Gentrification and the White Spatial Imaginary: Notes from Little Tokyo in Lockdown
Jonathan Jae-an Crisman
COVID-19 has created new challenges for community activism in Los Angeles. Jonathan Jae-an Crisman discusses gains and setbacks for Little Tokyo's anti-gentrification arts activists during the pandemic.