cultural studies – May Ee Wong, PhD

Salon talk at The Substation for “Discipline the City”

I was very glad to have participated in the Salon Series at The Substation running this year under the theme of ‘Discipline the City’ with Joanne Leow as speakers. Both of us wanted to open up a conversation about ‘street’ art in Singapore, a heavily regulated Southeast Asian city-state — that is, art of theContinue reading “Salon talk at The Substation for “Discipline the City””

From Jeremy Gilbert’s Stuart Hall obituary on ‘Radical Philosophy’

“How many of the conceptual fads that have excited aspiring young radical intellectuals in recent decades (from Agamben to Žižek) have ended up having any actual political purchase whatsoever? Isn’t the lack of historical consciousness and clear, patient analysis an endemic feature today of activist culture, just as a certain anti-intellectualism was the phenomenon againstContinue reading “From Jeremy Gilbert’s Stuart Hall obituary on ‘Radical Philosophy’”