Imagining Urban Complexity: A Humanities Approach in Tropes, Media, and Genres

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.

Frans-Willem Korsten is professor ’Literature, Culture, and Law’ at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society and professor ’Literature and society’ at the Erasmus School of Philosophy. He was responsible for the NWO internationalization program ’Precarity and Post-Autonomia: The Global Heritage’ and took part in a NWO/FWO funded program: ’Imagineering Techniques in the Early Modern Period’. He currently takes part in a NWO funded program entitled ’Playing Politics: Media Platforms, Making Worlds’. He published extensively on the Republican baroque, theatricality and sovereignty (A Dutch Republican Baroque; open access), and 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 an B.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and an M.A. in Media Studies from Leiden University