Category: Literature & Art

Poems

If you’re a dog, guess I’m a bone but we both know I’m too soft for that you chew me up, a piece of gum when you’re gone, can’t spit me out, I’m stuck wondering if it was cause I laughed when you said I taste like licorice If you’re

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Sonder

Don’t forget: You can’t get off the plane looking like you’ve been in it for 30 hours. You put your suit on, tie, Axe, hairspray, immaculate. You’re not just any man anymore. Bank of Shanghai.  You finally get to show everyone your golden plate, the grand title of Banker next

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-ING Poems

Three poems inspired by the 15th Shanghai Bienalle Exhibition and “Ariel” by Sylvia Plath.

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Glitch Art, Hallucination and East-West Philosophy

Photo: “Chimera” by Marta Timmer, Sotheby’s The “hallucinations” of artificial intelligence and glitch art are emblematic symptoms of the algorithmic era. They inspire interpretations that transcend any single cultural or philosophical framework. While Western Science, Technology and Society (STS) theories and poststructuralism excel at analyzing the social construction of technology

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Confucian Feminism

Hybridity defines the globalized contemporary world. In accordance, Rosenlee’s hybrid Confucian Feminism is neither a return to the pure study of Confucianism nor a one-sided feminist critique of Confucian patriarchy. Instead, her feminist reappropriation of Confucianism merges the two disciplines, enriching feminism transculturally to be applicable to every woman everywhere.

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trilogy poems

Photo: Henry Ossawa Tanner, Study for the Annunciation, ca. 1898, oil on wood, 8 1⁄2 x 10 3⁄4 in. (21.5 x 27.4 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Robbins, 1983.95.187 https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/study-annunciation-23684 #21.03 god luvs mob violence shrinking inwards: if my body is this slick curvature,

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Mary Magdalene: Miss-Representation in Italian High Renaissance Art

The Gospel of John describes Mary Magdalene as the first person to see Jesus Christ after his Resurrection. According to John, Magdalene afterwards said to Christ’s disciples, “I have seen the Lord”. Through modern scholarship, it has become apparent that her characterization has been subject to many changes from the

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