We Are All Platform Urbanists, But Not All in the Same Way
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Maroš Krivý asks whether platforms contribute to the dynamics of uneven urban development itself.
Roundtables
Platforms as urban technology?
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Lizzie Richardson's followup post explores urban plan forms as technologies of urban life.
At the margins of the market: notes on the essay film’s modes of production and distribution
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Roberto Cavallini unpacks the essay film's potential for ideological critique vis-à-vis its position within the film industry.
Beyond the Museum of Present Pasts
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Iván Villarmea Álvarez explores the politics of memory in the contemporary city essay film.
(Im)Permeable History: Notebook on Cities and Clothes (pt. 2)
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Thomas Elsaesser traces Wim Wenders and Yohji Yamamoto's intertwined history through personal upheavals and national trauma to arrive, unexpectedly, at Weimar photography.
Bad essays don’t think: reflections on a (still) heretic form of the cinematic city
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Drawing on Adorno's account of the "bad essay", Brenda Hollweg defends the essay film's capacity for politico-aesthetic intervention.
Re/framing the City of Cinema
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Laura Rascaroli on how the essay film's metahistorical nature, combined with the characteristics of post-modern space/time, produce a distinct treatment of the city as palimpsest.
Urban Palimpsests and the City Essay Film
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Igor Krstić reflects on the first round of The Essay Film and the City" and opens the second by asking contributors to rethink the classic metaphor of the urban as palimpsest.
Quantified Self-City-Nation
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Matthew W. Wilson considers the technicity of maps and ‘quantified self-city-nation’ as a general theory for the technoscientific solutions we offer to confront socio-technical problems.
Urban platforms, rent, and the digital built environment
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John Stehlin claims that the urban & the platform are entwined through their mutual creation of landscapes of locational advantage.
We Are All Platform Urbanists Now
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Sarah Barns argues that a platform urbanism should be more than a focus of academic critique, but also a site for radical appropriations of urban space.
Becoming-Platform, the Urban and the City
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Maroš Krivý examines the smart city as both the smart city and the smart city.