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.
Roundtables
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.
Platforms and the Publicness of Urban Markets
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Lizzie Richardson revises our assumptions about digital platforms like Uber and the privatization of public urban space.
Platform Urbanism: An Introduction
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Scott Rodgers and Susan Moore introduce a new Roundtable on urban platforms by asking how platforms may be understood as new forms of urban infrastructure.
The city as stage: proto-essayistic elements in Chronique d’un été
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Roberto Cavallini mounts a case for Rouch and Morin's Chronique d'un été as an essay film
Notebook on Cities and Clothes: Wim Wenders Takes to the (Inner Ring) Road
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Thomas Elsaesser reconsiders some of Wim Wenders films through the lens of the city and the essay, discovering new dialogic and self-reflexive qualities within them.
Streets & Screens
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Iván Villarmea Álvarez explores the perspectives that local and outsider filmmakers bring to the essay film.