Opening the Canon

no. 4, Opening the Canon, vol. 5October 26, 2020

Tosaka Jun’s Spatial Theory and Reflections on Film

By Yoon Jeong Oh

The 2020 global pandemic affected the urban context from the visible surface of city streets to the most quotidian details of city life. In New York, where I teach and live, the streets were uncannily desolate in the spring and …

no. 3, Opening the Canon, vol. 4October 4, 2019

A Phenomenological Reading of Jane Jacobs’ Death and Life of Great American Cities

By David Seamon

Though published almost sixty years ago, urbanist Jane Jacobs’ 1961 Death and Life of Great American Cities continues to grow in conceptual and pragmatic significance.¹Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities,NY: Random House, 1961/1993; …

no. 1, Opening the Canon, vol. 4March 1, 2019

Spatialising the Time-Image : Viewing Renoir through Deleuze and Guattari

By Barry Nevin

Jean Renoir’s vision of space has continued to sustain theorization since André Bazin’s major critical reappraisal of the quintessential French auteur in Cahiers du Cinéma,¹See especially ‘Renoir français’/‘The French Renoir’, reprinted in André Bazin, Jean Renoir, …

no. 2, Opening the Canon, vol. 3June 13, 2018

Raoul Vaneigem

By Robert Porter

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, the point, however, is to orgasm…

When the editor of the ‘Opening the Canon’ section of this very fine journal agreed to my suggestion of writing something about the political activist and artist …

no. 4, Opening the Canon, vol. 2October 30, 2017

Edward Soja

By Mark Shiel

Welcome to the first post in “Opening the Canon,” a new section dedicated to exploring the work of foundational thinkers in the fields of urban studies and spatial theory. Specifically, it invites contributors to reflect on how the work of …