Do the quarantine, queues that seem like breadlines, the waiting for government bailouts/handouts, not seem like those times of economic depression and great conflict? Continue reading A Journal of the Plague Year 2020: The curious case of 5G and the virus
But all that has been explored already through fiction: none of this is new but the translation of the imagined into reality; and this conversion rate of the imaginary into actuality will accelerate. Continue reading A Journal of the Plague Year 2020: The use of the Imagination
by Sanjay Perera
The collective aspirations of its people go beyond the Who’s Who of Singapore and their supporters. The country also includes those who have no one in particular to speak for them. Continue reading Taking notes 66: When the political is personal and the personal is political
by Sanjay Perera
This is not a review but more a critique of the film’s attempt to make an important statement on America’s history of violence, race relations, corruption, the viciousness of capitalism and, indeed, evil. Continue reading The melancholia of resistance: Tarantino’s eight film
by Ross Wolfe Today it is well known that the future has become a thing of the past. Gone are the days when humanity dreamt of a different tomorrow. All that remains of that hope is a distant memory. Indeed, most of what is hoped for these days is no more than some slightly modified version of the present, if not simply the return to a status quo ante — i.e., to a present that only recently became deceased. This is the utopia of normality, evinced by the drive to “get everything running back to normal” (back to the prosperity … Continue reading Memories of the future
Philosophers for Change 