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no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5February 27, 2020

Apparitions and Wormholes: Moving Image Artworks and Urban Porosity

By Annie Dell'Aria

[Ed. note: this post is part of a Roundtable discussion on “Porousness and Cities.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

Urban porosity denies hard boundaries or enclosures, understanding …

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5February 25, 2020

Liu Jiayin’s spatial politics of reduction

By Erin Shevaugn Schlumpf

[Ed. note: this post is part of a Roundtable discussion on “Porousness and Cities.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

In what follows, I’d like to look at …

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5February 22, 2020

Porous Gateways: The London Docklands on Film and as Archive

By Anna Viola Sborgi

[Ed. note: this post is part of a Roundtable discussion on “Porousness and Cities.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

In this post, I want to reflect on …

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5February 17, 2020

Introduction: The Porous City

By Sabine Haenni

[Ed. note: this post is part of a Roundtable discussion on “Porousness and Cities.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

Porous, adj.

• Full of pores; …

no. 1, Remembrance, vol. 5February 14, 2020

The Empty Centre: The Legacy of Thomas Elsaesser

By Floris Paalman

Film scholar Thomas Elsaesser passed away in Beijing on December 4, 2019. His death not only coincides with the end of a decade, but also marks the end of an era. Elsaesser (born in Berlin, 1943) belonged to the generation …