Yongyu Chen provides a new lens on the well-known Thai ghost Nak in his video essay, “Mae Nak: The Close-Up...
Singing the Revolution: India’s Anti-CAA Protests and Faiz’s “Hum Dekhenge”
Jennifer Dubrow On December 17, 2019, a student protest at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur was held in...
Oceans, Waters, Aquifers
The following series is a visual experiment in the comparative movement of fluids across different spatial visualizations. From celestial currents...
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january 2020
Minju Bae, Demilitarization in the Time of Police Abolition: Korean A-bomb Survivors Demand Justice
August 6 and 9, 2020 mark seventy-five years since the US dropped atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Despite how...
Kamran Baradaran, Ground Zero, or Why Do We Need Antonio Gramsci in the Times of COVID-19
“Politics is a protracted war. Do not be in a hurry. Try to see things far in advance and know...
Kun Huang, “Anti-Blackness” in Chinese Racial-Nationalism: Sex/Gender, Reproduction, and Metaphors of Pathology
Author: Kun Huang Translators: Roy Chan, Shui-yin Sharon Yam Notes on English edition: This essay was originally published in Chinese...
Federico Marcon,Theses on Theory and Intellectual Production
“das Höchste wäre zu begreifen, dass alles Faktische schon Theorie ist.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhem Meisters Wanderjahre I scribbled...
The proletariat are all those who are denied the collective faculty of imagination: an interview with Divya Dwivedi
Divya Dwivedi is a philosopher and author based in India. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities...
Jean-Luc Nancy and Shaj Mohan, Our Mysterious Being
The English translation of these texts first appeared in “The Philosophical Salon” at the LA Review of Books on April...
Cao Zhi (192-232 CE), The Plague Airs
Cao Zhi, son of Cao Cao and one of the best known poets of the late Han/Three Kingdoms period, wrote this...
Jeremy Fernando, On living in the age of pandemic
Giorgio Agamben tries to never let us forget that keeping alive is not quite the same as living. [1] And...
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