4E Shi-nema: On Cinematicity and Metaphoricity in China’s (Un)Real-Estate Showrooms

Citation

Fleming D (2018) 4E Shi-nema: On Cinematicity and Metaphoricity in China’s (Un)Real-Estate Showrooms. Stirling-Pompeu Fabra Conference, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 22.03.2018-23.03.2018.

Abstract
This paper explores efficacy of 4E (embodied, embedded, extended, and enacted) urban Chinese assemblages by engineer an encounter between the Chinese concept of shi (势) – described by sinologist- philosopher François Julien as the “inherent potentiality at work in configuration” – and that of cinematicty, wherein the cinematic-city is recognised as an affectively pre-charged site/sight.