Category Archives: Philosophy
The Curse of Cash
Professor Rogoff doesn’t like cash, at least high currency bank notes. He’s written a whole book explaining why they should be withdrawn from circulation. To be fair, he restricts the idea to developed or mature economies with strong financial institutions.
The Curse of Cash
Professor Rogoff doesn’t like cash, at least high currency bank notes. He’s written a whole book explaining why they should be withdrawn from circulation. To be fair, he restricts the idea to developed or mature economies with strong financial institutions.
The Art of Writing Art
Writing Art breaks rules: rules of writing; rules of book layout; rules of what an academic is supposed to do with her/his topic. If you leaf through the book, your gaze will catch that the structure of the paragraph layout
The Art of Writing Art
Writing Art breaks rules: rules of writing; rules of book layout; rules of what an academic is supposed to do with her/his topic. If you leaf through the book, your gaze will catch that the structure of the paragraph layout
Feature: Teach me tonight…
One thing isn’t very clear, my love Should the teacher stand so near, my love? — Dinah Washington Every so often — and with seemingly increasing regularity — our news feeds are inundated with what can be loosely termed
Feature: Teach me tonight…
One thing isn’t very clear, my love Should the teacher stand so near, my love? — Dinah Washington Every so often — and with seemingly increasing regularity — our news feeds are inundated with what can be loosely termed
From the Void: It’s Fiction Reaches Out
Let’s begin with the rudimentary; this is not a book for philistines: the cover art of the book was posted on a social media site and was considered as possibly not meeting the site’s standards on nudity. The issue is
From the Void: It’s Fiction Reaches Out
Let’s begin with the rudimentary; this is not a book for philistines: the cover art of the book was posted on a social media site and was considered as possibly not meeting the site’s standards on nudity. The issue is
Feature: Reading Jeremy Fernando
By Jeremy Fernando… If writing is of the order of death, and reading is the order of life — or a reviving, resuscitation, even necromancy — then the question that is opened is: what happens in-between? Or, perhaps more
Feature: Reading Jeremy Fernando
By Jeremy Fernando… If writing is of the order of death, and reading is the order of life — or a reviving, resuscitation, even necromancy — then the question that is opened is: what happens in-between? Or, perhaps more
Requiem for the Factory
A review of Jeremy Fernando´s latest work, Requiem for the Factory, would, however small, however modest, all too soon, all too easily presuppose and lay claim to the very singularity of reception, of perception, thinking, writing, memory, indeed of truth,
Requiem for the Factory
A review of Jeremy Fernando´s latest work, Requiem for the Factory, would, however small, however modest, all too soon, all too easily presuppose and lay claim to the very singularity of reception, of perception, thinking, writing, memory, indeed of truth,
50 shades of activism
All that remains is (my and our) humanist hope, without proof. (Ingrid Hoofd) Freedom Freedom You got to give for what you take (George Michael: Freedom) Let me start by unequivocally saying that I have very little patience—bordering on disdain—for
50 shades of activism
All that remains is (my and our) humanist hope, without proof. (Ingrid Hoofd) Freedom Freedom You got to give for what you take (George Michael: Freedom) Let me start by unequivocally saying that I have very little patience—bordering on disdain—for
No Future Now
Denah Johnston’s book, No Future Now, shares part of its title with a song by proto-punks The MC5 (“Future Now” from their High Time album from 1970); punk avatars The Sex Pistols’ (“No Future” from their 1976 Never Mind the
No Future Now
Denah Johnston’s book, No Future Now, shares part of its title with a song by proto-punks The MC5 (“Future Now” from their High Time album from 1970); punk avatars The Sex Pistols’ (“No Future” from their 1976 Never Mind the
Yasmin How You Know?
Almost 4 years after Yasmin Ahmad’s untimely departure, Yasmin How You Know? uncovers the legacy of the storyteller behind films such as Sepet and Gubra and distills it into the form of a book. This is no easy task, but
Yasmin How You Know?
Almost 4 years after Yasmin Ahmad’s untimely departure, Yasmin How You Know? uncovers the legacy of the storyteller behind films such as Sepet and Gubra and distills it into the form of a book. This is no easy task, but
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
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
Singapore Review of Books 