Psychopolitics
Brian Haman reviews Byung-Chul Han’s Psychopolitics and explores a regime of domination that has discovered the force of the psyche.
HONG KONG REVIEW OF BOOKS 香港書評
Critical Theory, Philosophy, Literature – Reviews, Essays, Interviews
Some Drown in the Desert
B. David Zarley reviews Jackson Ellis’s debut novel, where the American Dream of land and liberty is sacrificed in the name of Progress.
Where Time Turns Black
Stephen Davies discusses the latest by Agnes Ku, whose poetry/prose/image project confronts modern life in Hong Kong.
HRKB Essays: Populism and Digital Media
Following the revelations of Cambridge Analytica’s involvement in Brexit and the election of Trump, J.A. Smith asks whether the relationship between populism and digital media goes deeper than the rogue behaviour of particular companies and campaigns.
House of Lords and Commons
Mary Jean Chan reviews the latest collection by Ishion Hutchinson, published recently by Faber.
Into the Red Stack
Gabriele de Seta on China’s digital entrepreneurs, infrastructures and platforms.
HKRB Interviews: Jean McNeil
In the first of a mini-series of interviews by Nigerian poet and novelist Timothy Ogene, Canadian travel and fiction writer Jean McNeil is the guest.
Desmond Kon
In collaboration with our local literature section, we interview post-structuralist poet Desmond Kon
