Roundtables

November 2, 2018<November 2, 2018

At the margins of the market: notes on the essay film’s modes of production and distribution

Roberto Cavallini

Roberto Cavallini unpacks the essay film's potential for ideological critique vis-à-vis its position within the film industry.

November 1, 2018<November 1, 2018

Beyond the Museum of Present Pasts

Iván Villarmea Álvarez

Iván Villarmea Álvarez explores the politics of memory in the contemporary city essay film.

October 31, 2018<October 31, 2018

(Im)Permeable History: Notebook on Cities and Clothes (pt. 2)

Thomas Elsaesser

Thomas Elsaesser traces Wim Wenders and Yohji Yamamoto's intertwined history through personal upheavals and national trauma to arrive, unexpectedly, at Weimar photography.

October 30, 2018<October 30, 2018

Bad essays don’t think: reflections on a (still) heretic form of the cinematic city

Brenda Hollweg

Drawing on Adorno's account of the "bad essay", Brenda Hollweg defends the essay film's capacity for politico-aesthetic intervention.

October 29, 2018<October 29, 2018

Re/framing the City of Cinema

Laura Rascaroli

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.

October 28, 2018<October 28, 2018

Urban Palimpsests and the City Essay Film

Igor Krstić

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.

October 27, 2018<October 27, 2018

Quantified Self-City-Nation

Matthew W. Wilson

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.

October 26, 2018<October 28, 2018

Urban platforms, rent, and the digital built environment

John Stehlin

John Stehlin claims that the urban & the platform are entwined through their mutual creation of landscapes of locational advantage.

October 26, 2018<October 26, 2018

We Are All Platform Urbanists Now

Sarah Barns

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.

October 24, 2018<October 25, 2018

Becoming-Platform, the Urban and the City

Maroš Krivý

Maroš Krivý examines the smart city as both the smart city and the smart city.

October 24, 2018<November 5, 2018

Platforms and the Publicness of Urban Markets

Lizzie Richardson

Lizzie Richardson revises our assumptions about digital platforms like Uber and the privatization of public urban space.

October 23, 2018<November 8, 2018

Platform Urbanism: An Introduction

Scott Rodgers & Susan Moore

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.