HKRB ESSAYS: The President’s Other Woman

As Obama finally commutes Chelsea Manning’s unjust sentence, Amy Hickman discusses the relationship between Manning, the presidency, transgender politics and Guantánamo. Continue reading →

HKRB ESSAYS: BoJack Bauman

Following the death of legendary Polish sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman, Łukasz Muniowski uses his work to explore Sarah Lynn the Continue reading →

HKRB ESSAYS: VR and The Empathy Machine

Edwin Montoya Zorrilla discusses how Virtual Reality could transform and reprogram our relationship to empathy for good and for bad, Continue reading →

HKRB Essays: Stranger Things and the Nostalgia Industry

Grafton Tanner discusses ‘Stranger Things,’ retromania and the role of commodities in the nostalgia industry, from Taylor Swift to Donald Continue reading →

HKRB Essays: Donald Trump and Liberal Outrage

As the Election results come in, Daniel Bristow provides a final assessment of Trump’s despicable significance and warns that if he Continue reading →

HKRB ESSAYS: Hipster Politics

Lucas Ballestín analyzes the politics of the hipster, looking to dispel assumptions and use psychoanalytic intuition to explore new ways of thinking the Continue reading →

HKRB Essays: Dylan and Deleuze – The Times They Are A-Changing

In the latest HKRB Essay Kimberley Clarke discusses the Dylan Nobel Prize saga, arguing that the conflation of music and Continue reading →

HKRB ESSAYS: Theory and the Act of Revolution

Angus Reoch re-reads John Reed’s classic 1919 text 10 Days That Shook The World and discusses how the revolution eclipses those who help Continue reading →