The encounter was unexpected and took me off guard – The organisers were following instructions from the Government of Mauritius, presumably via the Ministry of Tertiary of Education or, given the centralised nature of Mauritian statecraft, the Cabinet itself.
“There was a silence at the heart of the flying bodies; there was a soundless sound; there was a motion meaningless as the awful collision of particles beyond sight; there was an energy purposeful of intention but beyond understanding. A man must lose his life to find it.”
Moe military is subgenre of a subculture in which these reflexive and seemingly dichotomous concepts of aggressor and pacifist break binaries and exist contiguously. Girls und Panzer and The Sky Crawlers sit squarely within this practice of myth making in the contemporary Japanese socio-historical consciousness.
CW: This article and podcast contain explicit language. By Crystal Choi, Eunice Chan and Marco Lam 前言 廣東歌一直紀錄香港社會變遷，亦係香港文化同身份認同嘅載體。1989年嘅六四事件，加添香港社會對中共管治嘅不安同恐懼，當時唔少嘅流行曲都用呢個題材。九七主權移交廿五年後嘅今日，呢份不安同恐懼都仲喺度，而廣東歌繼續肩負起記錄社會變化嘅重任。我吔一齊睇下廣東歌，點樣反映唔同時期嘅香港社會，對於主權移交同埋中港關係嘅睇法。 Introduction Since its emergence in the 1970s, Cantopop has been documenting social change in Hong Kong. It is also a carrier of Hong Kong’s culture and identity. In 1989 the Tiananmen Massacre occurred in mainland China. This…
The false religious and social dichotomy in Karnataka politics is not reflected in the historical reality of the region, and is instead a concerted political effort contemporaneous with the rise of right-wing politics.
Though it’s been some months and even years since I’d first read these works, I have not stopped thinking about them, wanting to talk about them.
The implementation of a Euroamerican binary in nineteenth century Japan fuelled an erasure of indigenous gender identities; the subsequent impact of centring biological sex had significant effect on contemporary Japanese society.
Listen to our two part episode about the Ramayana, the history of story telling, and the place of storytelling in history.
Percy Shelley’s poem ‘Ozymandias’ serves as an analytical lens for both the Europeanisation of contemporary notions of ancient Egypt, and is itself a testament to the legacy of Ramasses II’s legacy.
