The Real Fake
Using the case of Thames Town, an English-like village in Shanghai, Maria Francesca Piazzoni’s The Real Fake looks at Chinese ideas of spacial construction and what authenticity means in (re)making spaces.
Bless Me, Ultima
Our new tradition, on the Bedrosian Bookclub, is to read a witchy book for the month of October. This year … We’re taking a look at the coming of age novel, Bless Me, Ultimaby Rudolfo Anaya. This is the story of Antonio Marez, a six year old boy caught between Read more…
This is How it Ends
Eva Dolan’s This is How it Endsis a thriller set in an anti-gentrification activist community in the middle of a rapidly gentrifying London. Dolan tackles the huge issue of gentrification through the story of two women engaged in the anti-gentrification movement. How do we define ourselves in places? How do Read more…
“The immediacy of writing online has become part of my brain.”
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Coming in September!
LA Hastags Itself is a six-episode, limited series podcast coming in September 2016. We will hear from various Angeleno private and public organizations leading the trend of using digital media for urban and social development. Digital media are neither just “useful” nor peculiar to the sharing and cultural economies, but Read more…