HKRB Interviews: Todd McGowan

In this HKRB Interview Frank Smecker asks Lacanian Todd McGowan about condoning the unbearable enjoyment of loss, the radicality of psychoanalysis Continue reading →

Solidarity without Borders

Hirbohd Hedayat reviews a new book on immigration and solidarity, more relevant than ever in light of the debates of Continue reading →

Dostoevsky in Context

Paul Fung reviews the latest CUP book on Dostoevsky and his place in Russian literary history, exploring the worlds inhabited Continue reading →

The Second Year of Jianfeng – 建豐二年: 新中國烏有史

Yunwen Gao reviews a controversial new Chinese alternative history novel and explores the political situation in Hong Kong and China today. Continue reading →

ABC of Impossibility

Adam Steiner reviews Critchley’s latest. A collection of entries for a projected, larger encyclopaedia of impossibility, ABC is a revealing Continue reading →

Why There Is No Poststructuralism in France

Jason Goldfarb reviews Johannes Angermuller’s new book on why critical theory hasn’t theorized its own naming and categorization. Johannes Angermuller, Why Continue reading →

Anti-Education

Nadim Bakhshov, author of Against Capitalist Education, reviews a new edition of Nietzsche’s lectures on education published as Anti-Education by the NYRB. Friedrich Nietzsche, Anti-Education, Continue reading →

The Brain’s Body: Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics

Promise Li reviews Victoria Pitts-Taylor’s new study of the dialogue between feminism and neuroscience and assesses her argument for a new compatibility between Continue reading →