【by Isa Lacuna & Bram Overbeeke, June 2022】 The environment as a critical subject of inquiry has garnered increased attention with the advent of the epoch arguably called the Anthropocene, and now …
-
[Postgraduate topic 2022]
Imperial Wilderness: Ecological Imagination of the US Empire (1898-1902) | Timothy Ong
【by Timothy Ong, June 2022】 In January 9, 1900, Senator Albert Beveridge from Indiana delivered before the US Senate hearing in the 1st session of the 56th Congress his views regarding the relationshi…
-
[Postgraduate topic 2022]
Storm and Spiral: A Short History of Storm-Becoming in Nineteenth Century Philippine Revolutionary Literature | Isa Lacuna
【by Isa Lacuna, June 2022】 Much has already been said about the historical and political interpretations of Philippine revolutionary literature, and all these insights remain indispensable in the tack…
-
[Postgraduate topic 2022]
“Nature-Other”: A Posthuman Feminist Reading of Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods | Betsy Kwong
【by Betsy Kwong, June 2022】 Renegotiate, recompose, and reform—indicative actions that prescribes an urgency to the current predicaments of society that calls for a reconstitution of power relations i…
-
[Postgraduate topic 2022]
Against the Promise of Infrastructure: Watery Intimacy and Vietnamese Speculative Cinema | Ding-Liang Chen
【by Ding-Liang Chen, June 2022】 Taking Vietnamese director Phạm Ngọc Lân’s 2020 short film The Unseen River (Giòng Sông Không Nhìn Thấy) as a point of departure, this essay aims to foreground the theo…
-
[Postgraduate topic 2022]
Hong Kong Waste and the Politics of Visibility: On the Streets and on the Screen | Bram Overbeeke
【by Bram Overbeeke, June 2022】 In the present day, everyday life in metropolises such as Hong Kong is often sensually and ideologically disconnected from the broader natural environment that it inhabi…