Jaap Stronks pointed via Twitter to this smartmobby book, called ‘Mediapolis‘, of 010 publishers in Rotterdam Thanx Jaap, you are right Mobile Cities florish! See The Mobile City Conference !!
Mediapolis ’Every generation must build its own city’
Alex de Jong, Marc Schuilenburg
232 pp / 227 x 152 mm / paperback
ISBN 978 90 6450 628 4
published 2007
Games like America’s Army, World of Warcraft and Grand Theft Auto and the music of Snoop ‘Doggy’ Dogg, Dizzee Rascal and Juan Atkins are fuelling the engines of globalization. As a result, popular culture is taking an ever firmer grip on our living environment and on our lives. In Mediapolis the authors sound out an urban environment pulsing to the rhythm of the popular media. They introduce a pop philosophy whose concepts include the Urban Container, ’scenius’, sonic communities and nodal urbanity. Here technological, political, cultural, economic and even military developments meet head-on. Mediapolis makes clear what urban pop culture is and how it has influenced our notion of city. The words of the Italian Futurist Antonio Sant’Elia are as true today as in 1914: ’Every generation must build its own city’.
Quote of Siebe Thissen reviewing this book: Mediapolis is an exciting and particularly intriguing book. Take the title itself: Mediapolis is more like the title of a DC comic by Peter Kuper or Frank Miller than a serious treatise on the present-day metropolitan situation. The authors, Marc Schuilenburg and Alex de Jong – alias Studio Popcorn – display a preference for popular culture because pop culture, as they write in their introduction, offers ‘an opportunity to approach our living environment from a different angle’. This is an understatement. It should have been: ‘because our current living environment is completely pop-cultural in its nature’. The authors have enriched the Dutch language with two splendid terms: pop modernism and pop philosophy.
Jaap Stronks pointed via Twitter to this smartmobby book, called ‘Mediapolis‘, of 010 publishers in Rotterdam Thanx Jaap, you are right Mobile Cities florish! See The Mobile City Conference !!
Mediapolis ’Every generation must build its own city’
Alex de Jong, Marc Schuilenburg
232 pp / 227 x 152 mm / paperback
ISBN 978 90 6450 [...]
