New in HKRB Reviews: Marcel Krueger reviews an unsettling account of the myths and legends of Scout Rock, a dominating and ominous presence in West Yorkshire, England.
New in HKRB Reviews: Karolinn Fiscaletti discusses two important new poetry collections from Canarium Books.
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Benjamin Bratton's The Black Stack in Chinese
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"When framed against the American hegemony over the global Internet, the Chinese case arguably appears as the only example of a booming digital economy built on top of increasingly nationalized infrastructures and compliant homegrown platforms, shielded from competition and disruption by techno-nationalist policies and authoritarian censorship measures. In China, two decades of state-led ICT development and a conception of cybersovereignty elevated to foreign policy spearhead have carved out a geopolitical enclave in which computational architectures and informational actors are coming together into what could be deservedly termed the Red Stack."
Gabriele de Seta 胡子歌 on China’s digital entrepreneurs, infrastructures and platforms.
Timothy Ogene reviews multiple award winner Jean McNeil about her fiction and travel writing.
"Because my work is often postmodern, it questions the metanarrative, and usually assumes any story/history as a narrative of contingency. Through various tropic devices, these dominant discourses/narratives become untethered, and unravel into different arcs, however tangential or illusory."
"Because my work is often postmodern, it questions the metanarrative, and usually assumes any story/history as a narrative of contingency. Through various tropic devices, these dominant discourses/narratives become untethered, and unravel into different arcs, however tangential or illusory."
"Writers such as Liu Cixin, Hao Jingfang, and Han Song portray dystopian worlds. Unlike the utopian sci-fi that openly expressed its optimistic belief in science and technology, they give us a glimpse of a horrible future, not only in a local context but for the whole human race. They point out that neither humans nor their technologies are omnipotent, and can further the already existing malpractices rather than bring about change. This is exactly the concern of Hao Jingfang’s Folding Beijing, which pictures future Beijing as a megacity divided into three separate spaces that share the same earth surface in each forty-eight-hour cycle."
Li Anan on the Hugo award winner and contemporary dystopian sci-fi in China.
On Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 March, in partnership with the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London and the Hong Kong Arts Centre, M+ presents a short screening programme of three works by the filmmaker, writer, theorist, and composer Trinh T Minh-ha: The Fourth Dimension (2001), Forgetting Vietnam (2015) and Reassemblage (1982). Hugely influential in the fields of feminism and postcolonial studies through her writing and moving-image work, Vietnamese-born Trinh joins us on both evenings for conversations with fellow artists and academics.
For more information and to register for these free events see: https://www.westkowloon.hk/en/filmsbyTrinhTMinhha
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