Imagining Urban Complexity introduces passionate and critical perspectives on the link between humanities and urban studies. It emphasizes tropes, media, and genres as cultural techniques that shape complexity in urban environments by distributing affordances, modes of sensing, and modes of sense-making.
Imagining Urban Complexity introduces passionate and critical perspectives on the link between humanities and urban studies. It emphasizes tropes, media, and genres as cultural techniques that shape complexity in urban environments by distributing affordances, modes of sensing, and modes of sense-making.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Frans-Willem Korsten is professor of Literature, Culture, and Law at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society and professor of Literature and Society at the Erasmus School of Philosophy. He was responsible for the Dutch Research Council (NWO) internationalization program "Precarity and Post-Autonomia: The Global Heritage" and took part in the NWO/Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)-funded program "Imagineering Techniques in the Early Modern Period." He currently takes part in a program funded by the NWO entitled "Playing Politics: Media Platforms, Making Worlds." He published extensively on the Dutch Republican baroque, theatricality, and sovereignty (A Dutch Republican Baroque; 2017), and on the relation between literature, art, politics, justice, and law-Art as an Interface of Law and Justice: Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption (2021) and Cultural Interactions: Conflict and Cooperation (2022). Anthony T. Albright is a PhD candidate and lecturer at the Leiden University Center for the Arts in Society. He received a bachelor of arts (BA) with a concentration in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and a master of arts (MA) in Media Studies from Leiden University.
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Preamble Urban complexities: a humanities toolkit of tropes, media, genres I Tropes 1. What holds cities together? Body Politic - Network - Belt: Hong Kong & Atlanta 2. Cities as paradigms of nature-culture Jungle - Desert - Garden : Mexico City & Canberra 3. Urban distributions of access Archive - Labyrinth - Zone: Istanbul & Moscow 4. Cities as centers of expectation and disillusion Utopia - Dystopia - Non-Place: Paris & Brasilia II Media 5. Bringing urban selves and world into perspective Theatre - Spectacle: Amsterdam & Naples 6. Connecting the private and the masses Newspaper - Radio: Chicago & Caïro 7. Battlegrounds of representation and motors of desire Television - Cinema: Beijing & Bangkok 8. Media relating dividuals and scapes Digital - Social Media: Mumbai & Nairobi III Genres 9. Cities as forms of emplotment Narrative - Documentary: Rio de Janeiro & Seattle 10. Urban life fragmented and improvized Collage - Play: Lagos & Barcelona 11. Who does a city address and what do its rhythms express? Lyric - Poetry: Isfahan & Jakarta 12. City secret, city trauma and the unrepresentable Allegory - Comics: Jerusalem & Hiroshima Postscript The smart city: archipelagos of tests
Preamble Urban complexities: a humanities toolkit of tropes, media, genres I Tropes 1. What holds cities together? Body Politic - Network - Belt: Hong Kong & Atlanta 2. Cities as paradigms of nature-culture Jungle - Desert - Garden : Mexico City & Canberra 3. Urban distributions of access Archive - Labyrinth - Zone: Istanbul & Moscow 4. Cities as centers of expectation and disillusion Utopia - Dystopia - Non-Place: Paris & Brasilia II Media 5. Bringing urban selves and world into perspective Theatre - Spectacle: Amsterdam & Naples 6. Connecting the private and the masses Newspaper - Radio: Chicago & Caïro 7. Battlegrounds of representation and motors of desire Television - Cinema: Beijing & Bangkok 8. Media relating dividuals and scapes Digital - Social Media: Mumbai & Nairobi III Genres 9. Cities as forms of emplotment Narrative - Documentary: Rio de Janeiro & Seattle 10. Urban life fragmented and improvized Collage - Play: Lagos & Barcelona 11. Who does a city address and what do its rhythms express? Lyric - Poetry: Isfahan & Jakarta 12. City secret, city trauma and the unrepresentable Allegory - Comics: Jerusalem & Hiroshima Postscript The smart city: archipelagos of tests
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