Future Asian Space

In a long tradition of writing on architecture and urbanism, practitioners from Vitruvius to Corbusier sought to define fundamental principles that linked questions of meaning and social purpose to the design of physical form. In the contemporary extension of the

In conversation: Relational Syntax

  Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=jI-lbHknXgI Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaO3rKlYZO8 Jeremy Fernando chats with Marco and Adam in the reading room at Tembusu College, NUS about writing, art, music, and the edited collection Relational Syntax. Relational Syntax: Aesthetic awareness and ideological experience in

Functionarian Therapy

Circumspective thought was a ruling class value. To be a master you must possess “reason”, you must be literate. A slave otherwise. Late modernity’s version of rational subjectivity gave rise to the dumbing down critique of the late twentieth century.

The Reader as Neophyte Mystic

In a way, the book’s subtitle, “Conversations with Yahia Lababidi,” is misleading. Ostensibly, the book comprises Alex Stein’s dialogues with Lababidi on the literary luminaries Franz Kafka, Charles Baudelaire, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, Vilhelm Ekelund, and Søren Kierkegaard. But