HKRB Essays: Documenting Turbulent Times in HK
Karen Cheung offers a journalists perspective and personal reflection on the recent political crises in Hong Kong.
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HKRB ESSAYS: Zombies in Hamburg
Edwin Montoya Zorrilla discusses the G20 protests, George Romero’s zombies and the question of innocence in the age of police brutality.
HKRB ESSAYS: Kundera, Jokes, and Politics
Frank G Karioris on the latest by Milan Kundera and how it can help rehabilitate the Left today.
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?
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.
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
