Liquid Evil

Francis Russell reviews Liquid Evil, discussing economics, politics and truth itself, ultimately considering the possibility of a resistance to late-capitalist subjectivity. Zygmunt Bauman and Continue reading →

HKRB ESSAYS: Pokémon Go and the Enigma of the City

Edwin Montoya Zorrilla’s HKRB ESSAY counters articles across the internet and finds a Benjaminian radical edge in Pokémon Go, arguing that it Continue reading →

Queer Marxism in Two Chinas

Brandon Kemp discusses Petrus Liu’s latest book arguing that Queer Theory and Marxism belong together and bringing this to bear Continue reading →

Airplane Reading

Stephen Lee Naish reviews a book of things to read when flying instead of browsing the Duty Free catalog for Continue reading →

Eight Juxtapositions

Sean Mahoney reviews China expert Jeffrey Wasserstrom’s latest collection of essays juxtaposing Chinese history and culture with some Western counterparts. Continue reading →

HKRB Interviews: Agon Hamza

Our co-editor Alfie Bown interviews philosopher Agon Hamza about his new book on the films of Pasolini and the philosophy Continue reading →

The Typewriter Revolution

Thomas L. Lynn, Jr. reviews a new book on typewriters by an expert in Heidegger. Will the revolution be typewritten? Richard Polt, The Typewriter Revolution Continue reading →

Miniature Metropolis

Vladimir Rizov review Andreas Huyssen’s new Harvard UP book taking in and connecting the most exiting writers of the modernist and modern city, from Continue reading →