The city and the modern experience of crowds, everyday technologies, acceleration and anonymity. Architecture and navigating urban space. Human connection in the megalopolis. The emigrant’s return home.  Readings by Edgar Allan Poe (voyeurism and crowds), Jean Rhys (women in the city), Georges Perec (the infraordinary), architect Rem Koolhaas (Junkspace), anthropologist Marc Augé (non-places), Hanif Kureishi (immigrants and the suburbs. Films by directors Derrick Borte (The Joneses), Michael Haneke (Code Unknown), Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox), Celine Sciamma (Girlhood).