A THIRD HAMLET (World Diasporas of the 21st Century: The Experience of the Literary Formation of a Marginal Hero) Alexander Kan (Translated by Steven Sunwoo Lee, Stanford Universiry) Our topic requires a quick overview of the problem.  Therefore allow me to begin my paper on the literature of Koreans of the CIS with an excerpt from one of my own essays, “The Origin of the Phantom” (1995). T...

ARTIST STATEMENT My vision of an ideal future world is having every disease and illness completely and totally cured, for everyone.  The way I see it, is that once we achieve a global cure to all current and future medical conditions for humanity, we can become unified as a fully prosperous society.  We can then employ all technologies to reverse engineer our planet, reduce total pollution, and...

Roland Barthes once said that if you’re a nationalist, you’re in the cult of stupidity. But politics today is steeped in factionalism, which is to say, lots of cults vying for space as if they’ve double booked the same meeting room. The West is experiencing a nationalist upsurge that would, by Barthes’ measure, count as mass stupidity. Is it, though? As someone who advocates the freedom to be ...

Rarely has ‘slay queen 🔥’ become a caption for a country, but Barbados earns it. Cut ties with the British monarchy & crowned Rihanna a national hero

Rarely has ‘slay queen 🔥’ become a caption for a country, but Barbados earns it. Cut ties with the British monarchy & crowned Rihanna a national hero