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Footnote, no. 3, vol. 2September 30, 2017

An Update on Grenfell

By Anna Viola Sborgi

[Ed. note: Earlier this issue, we featured an essay by Anna Viola Sborgi on media response to the Grenfell crisis this summer in London. Given the rapidity of developments and their far-reaching implications, we asked Anna to revisit the … Read More

Commentary, no. 3, vol. 2September 30, 2017

Of Drones and Angels: GAIKA’s Sonic Images of Urban Resistance

By Alessio Kolioulis

“Nothing can stop us, no Theresa, no Boris”. This is how Brixton-born artist GAIKA addressed a small crowd while performing last November at Corsica Studios, an independent music venue in Elephant and Castle, a popular area with migrants and students …

Commentary, no. 3, vol. 2September 27, 2017

The Day Social Housing Hit Mainstream Media

By Anna Viola Sborgi

On June 14, 2017, a violent fire rapidly engulfed a 24-storey tower-block in West London. Grenfell Tower became the most tragic social housing disaster in Britain to date. Grenfell surged as a symbol of the wider social inequality in the …

Deep Dives, no. 3, vol. 2September 15, 2017

The Truth is Outsourcing: Notes on the Post-Industrial Spaces of The X-Files

By Kirk Boyle

Any mass media phenomenon as big as The X-Files, the hit television series that initially aired on Fox from 1993 to 2002, will serve as a cultural Rorschach Test. How critics read X-Files will tell us as much about …

Commentary, no. 3, vol. 2September 1, 2017

Cosmopolis and the Right to the City

By Thomas Nail

The right to the city could not be more urgent than it is today. Trump has already begun mass deportations, instituted refugee bans, emboldened xenophobes, promised to strip sanctuary cities of funding, and remains committed to the insane idea of …