I am so honored to be part of a conversation on
Platform Urbanism, organized by
Susan Moore and
Scott Rodgers, as a
Roundtable -- a feature of
Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture. My two posts in this conversation served to
reintroduce the notion of quantified self-city-nation and then discuss
the work of the hyphen in that formulation. However, the other commentators have pushed new ground on the role of critical geographical inquiry into understanding the role of the digital in our cities -- with work by
Lizzie Richardson,
Maroš Krivý,
Sarah Barns, and
John Stehlin.
I conclude my second post:
"In the quantified self-city-nation, these slippages are not failures of platform urbanisms, but are the binding practices that keep us individually and collectively still in the state of play — caught up in the various dreams that might allow some of us peace of mind, while many others are left insisting: wake up." More here.
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