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Art Criticism in the Middle of the Night

Lee Weng Choy considers the distance between us, while ruminating on reading, writing, and region

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In Beats of Uncertainty

Jihyun Paik follows a reverberation through quantum mechanics, experimental video art, the palpable language of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and more

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A Hong Kong Story: Why Is it So Difficult to Tell?

Leung Ping-kwan (Yasi) traces representations of Hong Kong through film, art, and theatre to examine its seemingly elusive identity 

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Lyrical Theorising

Yaniya Lee reflects on Jackie Wang and a life of poetry

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Ghosts from Underground Love

Laura Nys writes about young women exchanging love letters in a juvenile reformatory, and how the dilemma between privacy protection and rendering visibility is addressed by the art of Lam Wong

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On Transcription

Samira Bose examines the figure of the transcriber through the TV show Mindhunter, Lacan’s stenotypist, and her own experiences in magazines and archives

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The More Loving One

Jimin Kang on translation as a protracted, recurring, and painful process comparable to love

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A Pedagogy of Unwellness

Mimi Khúc interrogates the myth of meritocracy, ableism in the academy, and mental health's insistence on wellness

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today, tomorrow, and the day after that

Andrea Chu writes about slice of life, everyday routines, and other kinds of stories

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But Survival Doesn’t Work Like That: On Self-Publishing and Wan Sik Press

Michael Leung shares a note on experiments in self-publishing

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Dailyrium

Shreyasi Pathak considers how crip time shapes the archive

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In Observance: staying with the body, with Palestine at the United Nations

Tara Fatehi interferes with the rhythm by bringing movement and attention into the archive

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@silvermuon: an avatar, an invitation

Amber Jamilla Musser uses an IG alter ego to explore issues around Black femininity and the terms of representation

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And Yet

Ysabelle Cheung connects apocalyptic narratives and reality tv, bookstore closures and writing workshops, fear and death and community and more

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Book Begins with Beech

Lana Lin explores legacies of imperial naming practices, and the urgency to speak out against injustice

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Paul C. Fermin writes about states (and stakes) of being through basketball, star trek, and "oceanic feeling"

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Circle of Fifths

Christine Vicera writes about turbulence, holding space, building harmonies, and liberatory modes of thinking and being

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Gifts

Ethan Luk writes about disappearing phone booths, letter writing, daily assemblies, a magnolia alba tree, hotel rooms, and more

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How to Catch a Minnow

Emily Ogden asks how to love in conditions of uncertainty

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I want to name that…

Larissa Pham traces the origins of her unlanguaged feelings, and the process of coming to terms with them

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