This issue of paideia takes a critical look at the methods and sources we use to produce knowledge. These essays showcase new disciplinary methods applied both specifically to North Korea and more broadly.
This issue of paideia takes a critical look at the methods and sources we use to produce knowledge. These essays showcase new disciplinary methods applied both specifically to North Korea and more broadly.
Lawrence Cohen lays out the events precipitating and surrounding the epidemic proliferation of mucormycosis or “black fungus” in India, charting its pathophysiological, mediatic, and chromatic dimensions. Colors of...
Yet to be earned is a short narrative film capturing a series of old family photographs from the artist’s archive. It presents an audio-visual narrative about one family...
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which closed on the 8th of August 2021 after the many delays and disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, was a great success for Team China. Having...
Translated by Shiqi Lin Translator’s notes: This essay was originally published in Chinese for the “Trading Thoughts” column of thepaper.cn (澎湃思想市场) on May 23, 2021. Upon consultation with the author...
episteme issue 6 is presented as a forum, organized in response to Atlanta Spa Shooting and seeks to understand the racial-historical and geopolitical roots of anti-Asian racism and the shortfalls of the liberalist response to it.
Carlos Rojas discusses first responses to COVID-19 as recorded by an archival project created by Duke Kunshan University (DKU), a partnership between Duke University and Wuhan University.
There’s an impulse to reflect, to take stock, heightened by these crisis times. This issue takes a critical look at the methods and sources we use to produce knowledge and showcases new disciplinary methods applied both specifically to North Korea and more broadly.
Jane Yang offers a creative re-imagination of Lu Xun’s A Madman’s Diary within/alongside/vis-à-vis the pandemic.
Carlos Rojas discusses first responses to COVID-19 as recorded by an archival project created by Duke Kunshan University (DKU), a partnership between Duke University and Wuhan University.
Artist Tada Hengsapkul and curator Thanavi Chotpradit explore the underwater afterlives of the Cold War.
“First Looks” is a forum that captures the sense of an “unsettled” pandemic interregnum to ask: can the irresolution, the waiting, the vanishing certitudes of the interregnum be productive?
Michael Berry examines Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary, a crucial text that documented the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China via an online...
Bishnupriya Ghosh examines the “frontline intelligence” of healthcare workers who recorded or reported their qualitative perceptions during the early days...
On May 9, 2020, Japanese Military “Comfort Woman” survivor Lee Yong-soo held a press conference to criticize the Korean Council...
Two mass movements gained explosive momentum in South Korea during the 2010s. One was the popularization of “comfort women” activism,...
From a piercing collection of poems, A Cruelty Special to Our Species, poet Emily Jungmin Yoon explores gender, race, and...
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