Saidiya Hartman and Sheetal Chhabria maneuver their respective archives in very different ways. Where Hartman chooses photographs of Black American life, and writes of their subjects like one would write of an old friend, Chhabria shows us a table, Bombay census data from around the same time Hartman’s photographs were taken, she asks what doesn’t… Continue reading Captions and Numbers: Governing the City
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Points of Entry, Points of Exit
In the summer of 2020, The Funambulist Podcast recorded a series on France’s “quartiers populaires.” These episodes were often recorded in the neighborhoods being discussed, where the host, Léopold Lambert, interviewed current and former residents. Les Potagers, a housing project in Nanterre, is the subject of two such episodes. Built in the early 60’s, Les… Continue reading Points of Entry, Points of Exit
