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Rebecca Karl, On Fredric Jameson

It didn’t seem possible that someone so full of life and thought and humor could die, but Fredric Jameson has passed. Those of us who were fortunate enough to sit in his classrooms, to go to his home...

Raymond Tsang reviews Yau Ching, Wet Dreams in Paradise (天堂春夢 二十世紀香港電影史論).

Yau Ching, Wet Dreams in Paradise (天堂春夢 二十世紀香港電影史論). Taipei: Linking, 2024. ISBN: 978-957-08-7296-5. NT$600 As recent film and media studies have shifted focus away from texts, authors, production to...

Jack W. Chen, On the Event, Politics, and the University

1. Two May 4ths On May 4, 2024, University of Virginia President Jim Ryan and his leadership team made the decision to order Virginia state police to forcibly suppress what had been a peaceful...

Zifeng Liu, The Black Radical Tradition as a Source for Decolonizing Japan Studies

The outpouring of Black Lives Matter activism in response to the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd in 2020 has sparked renewed efforts to interrogate and undo the entanglements and complic...

Darwin H. Tsen, Anxiety as Method: Maoist Aesthetics and Cultural Capital in the Post-Revolution, a...

Anxiety Aesthetics: Maoist Legacies in China, 1978-1985. By Jennifer Dorothy Lee. Oakland: University of California Press, 2024. xiv + 193 pp. Hardcover: $85, Paperback: $34.99. How does one forge on...

Navyug Gill, Virtues of Impatience

A wave of agrarian unrest appears to be sweeping across much of the globe. The epicenter is once again the greater Panjab region of India. In February 2024, thousands of farmers assembled with their...

Gerald Roche, Rogue Journalists Are Denouncing The Gaza Genocide Because They Want You To Deny The...

As thousands of bodies are blown apart in Gaza and children starve to death in the city’s rubble-strewn streets, numerous groups are exploiting this suffering in order to advance oppressive agendas...

Toshikuni Doi, Gaza Residents Are “Double Victims” of Both Israeli Forces and Hamas

February 27,  2024 I spent 30 days on the ground during the Gaza offensive in the summer of 2014. About 2,100 Gaza residents were killed and hundreds of thousands were displaced. But the scale of the...

episteme issue 10: maoism on the move

The essays in this collection approach Maoism as a traveling theory, highlighting how Maoism was interpreted and implemented in a variety of contexts outside of socialist China.

Neferti Tadiar, On Feminism and Palestine 

Editor’s Note: This is the text of a talk that Neferti Tadiar delivered as part of a round-table discussion at Columbia University. Tadiar’s most recent book, Remaindered Life (Duke 2022), won the...

Gina Anne Tam reviews The 70’s Biweekly: Social Activism and Alternative Cultural Production in...

The 70’s Biweekly: Social Activism and Alternative Cultural Production in 1970s Hong Kong. Edited by Lu Pan. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2023. ISBN : 978-988-8805-70-9. 250.00 HKD “We...

Christopher Connery, All Hallows’ Eve: Shanghai 2023

There was a certain foreboding. Only the River Flows (河边的错误 dir. Wei Shujun literally The Mistake at the Riverside), a bleakly surreal pseudo-noir art film reminiscent of David Lynch and based on a...

Youngju Ryu, Teaching about Korea in the Time of Palestine

As campuses and cities around the country have been in the throes of vigils, rallies, and counter-rallies since October 7, I am teaching a course called “From Truman to Trump: Introduction to...