Janna Houwen

TL;DR: In this article, two intermedial installations that address the experiences of people on the run from war or poverty, yet overtly hinder and problematize the viewer's identification with the depicted refugees are examined.

TL;DR: Boletsi, Houwen, and Minnaard as discussed by the authors unpack the concept crisis and its operations alongside the concept of critique in our professed "postcritical times" and advocate critical practices that unravel through forms of translation and comparison rather than through hierarchical models or intellectual detachment.

TL;DR: This paper explored the normative functions of grammars of crisis that impose restrictive diagnoses of the present, alongside the potentialities that grammatical categories hold for envisioning alternative chronotopes.

TL;DR: Loubeyre and Knibbe as discussed by the authors studied the military-industrial-surveillance complex at Europe's borders as a machine that functions alongside and in response to the so-called refugee crisis, but that in itself is not in crisis at all.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the starting point of an investigation into intermedial interactions should be the concept of medium specificity instead of the many notions which define forms of inter-mediality, and they argue that essentialist ideas on medium specificity are rendered untenable by today's mixed, multi-, and intermedia, too often overshadows the question of what is being mixed, expanded, remediated, refashioned, converged or combined.