HKRB ESSAYS: Total Life Forever – How to Save the NHS
Adam Steiner discusses his contribution to a new guide to the Snap Election, considering the political and philosophical importance of the NHS.
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HKRB Essays: The SuperApp Dystopias – London, New York, Beijing
Chinese and Western mobile innovations offer new possibilities for state and corporate control of the populace and show that from a certain psychoanalytic perspective, some our consciousness is already uploaded.
HKRB ESSAYS: Animals, War and Humanity
Łukasz Muniowski discusses Niki Caro’s ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife,’ considering the ethics of caring for animals and/or humans in wartime and the pre-history of animal studies.
HKRB ESSAYS: The Korean Cash Money Wave
Steffanie Ling discusses the racism of K-Pop and why capitalism prevents the West from taking a stand. A televised ritual Continue reading
HKRB Essays: A Requiem for the European Bourgeoisie
Nicolas Hausdorf reads Mia Hansen-Løve’s new movie Things to Come as an allegory for a disintegrating Europe and a happy eulogy Continue reading
HKRB ESSAYS: The Egalitarian Ethic in Contemporary Angolan Cinema
Steve Light discusses practices of solidarity and mourning in contemporary Angolan Cinema, arguing that such films offer an alternative to the Continue reading
HKRB ESSAYS: The Revenge of SCUM Masculinity
Stephen Lee Naish re-reads Valerie Solanas’s 50 year old treatise the SCUM Manifesto in the age of Donald Trump, showing how she predicted Continue reading
HKRB ESSAYS: Orwell Revisited
On International Orwell Day, Joseph Kang uses the dystopian writer to explore contemporary political problems from the splintered Left to the war Continue reading
