vol. 3

November 10, 2018<November 9, 2018

The Horizons of Platformed Urban Politics

In this wrap up to the Platform Urbanism roundtable, Scott Rodgers and Susan Moore argue that horizons of a platformed urban politics should entail critical engagement and practice.

November 9, 2018<November 9, 2018

“Highest and Best Use” from the Plan to the Platform

John Stehlin

John Stehlin considers the historical resonances and specificity of platform urbanism.

November 8, 2018<November 8, 2018

On the Slippages in Platform Urbanisms

Matthew W. Wilson

Matthew Wilson argues that, as a form of “self-city-nation,” platform urbanisms enable slippages between the self and outside organizing forces that expand logics of quantification.

November 7, 2018<November 8, 2018

Platform Urbanism Rejoinder: Why now? What now?

Sarah Barns

Sarah Barns uses Henri Lefebvre's theories of the quotidian to consider platform urbanism as a mode of ‘everyday’ urban intervention.

November 6, 2018<November 6, 2018

We Are All Platform Urbanists, But Not All in the Same Way

Maroš Krivý

Maroš Krivý asks whether platforms contribute to the dynamics of uneven urban development itself.

November 5, 2018<November 5, 2018

Platforms as urban technology?

Lizzie Richardson

Lizzie Richardson's followup post explores urban plan forms as technologies of urban life.

November 5, 2018<November 5, 2018

A Historiographic Approach to Old Tucson

Joshua Gleich

Josh Gleich examines the value and limitations of historical records that will inform his cross-disciplinary study of Old Tucson Studios.

November 4, 2018<November 4, 2018

A Geographic Approach to Old Tucson

Chris Lukinbeal

Chris Lukinbeal explains how GIS techniques, drone technology, and multi-layer mapping data can help trace the topography of location shoots.

November 3, 2018<November 3, 2018

Old Tucson: Studio and Location, Geography and Film Historiography

Josh Gleich & Chris Lukinbeal

Josh Gleich and Chris Lukinbeal use a perennial location for westerns to ask how film scholars and geographers might each approach such a site and what they might learn from one another.

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.