HKRB Essays: The Anthropological Limits of Progress
What is wrong with the Universal Basic Income? What should we learn from the Unabomber today? Who are a politics of ‘progress’ serving now?
HONG KONG REVIEW OF BOOKS 香港書評
Affiliated with the LARB (Los Angeles Review of Books) Sponsored by the Sin Wai Kin Chinese Culture Scheme at HSMC
HKRB BOOKS: An Ethical Suspension of the Teleological
In a new feature at the HKRB, we are running extracts and chapters from forthcoming books by authors. The first feature is the opening chapter of Daniel Bristow’s political text.
Against Empathy
Angus Reoch considers the dominance of empathy within capitalist ethics.
How History Works
Alexandre Leskanich discusses the validity of history, interrogates the importance placed on ‘historicizing’ and argues that the production of history is itself capitalist.
Create or Die
Lydia Plantamura discusses the famous Frank Booth and goes beyond to explore Dennis Hopper’s own mad brilliance as a true artist.
HKRB Interviews: Yuk Hui
Jordan Skinner asks internationally renowned technology theorist Yuk Hui about modernity, AI, the future and the digital objects we live with today.
The World of Failing Machines
Terence Blake discusses OOO and convergent and divergent readings of an important new book on speculative realism and literature.
HKRB Events: MELON HK
The HKRB editing team attended the first annual Melon HK, reflecting on the place of sci-fi in rapidly developing technological capitalism.
