‘Without question, the seminal text of our times is Bluey.’
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‘The order in which we notice things can be just as significant as what we are seeing.’
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‘There is always a distance that Chang is perpetually reaching across and never arriving; mirroring the structure of memory.’
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‘To Roy, deviation is the point. The real story is in the margins.’
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‘If travel dislodges us from our usual strictures, what might we then become? If we go together, who might we then become to each other?’
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‘Once disassembled, what is a dancer?’
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‘The empty pursuit of individual gratification gives way to the honour of higher duties. For Deronda, the higher duty, the honourable inheritance, is Zionism.’
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‘At worst, Schapelle was a shady femme fatale layabout who dared risk it all for a quick buck in a country where drug offences are punishable by death. At best, she and her family of Bali-loving watersports enthusiasts with a propensity for getting into verbal and sometimes physical altercations with the media were guilty of eliciting deep cultural cringe.‘
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‘Art will not liberate Palestine. Hammad knows this. To write a book that frames theatre as a radical form of resistance would be naïve.’
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‘In other words, for British colonial law to work, the law needed a poet.’
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‘Even though I no longer think about my racial identity through negation, the central question stayed with me: What does my skin remember, reimagine, reappropriate?’
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‘Beyond this basic premise of the state fucking you over, which is almost historically universal, is something more specific to the Singaporean psyche: a critique of Singaporean subject-making through a stimulus-response psychology of pain and pleasure discourse—that is, the state fucks us up the ass because we are taught to ask them nicely.’
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‘This type of information collaging from various decontextualised sources has resulted in self-help being a genre that is typically not taken seriously and resented by literary critics.’
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‘In the beginning, Nakamoto created the network and the coin. Its earliest adopters could only write Bitcoin’s apotheosis. The rest is revisionist history.’
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‘No matter how much some people try to keep us as living artefacts, we’re an ever-present myriad of Peoples who live, love and grieve.’
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‘Rootlessly cosmopolitan—as fluent in the language of the office as in the language of the bedroom, in the theorems of science as in the paradoxes of theology—poetry is a perennial migrant in the republic of letters.’
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‘A rock can outlive history, so long as history does not break the rock.’
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‘Language passes through me, in cloudy shapes I only vaguely recognise as the distance between myself and the rest of the world.’
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‘Here there are plastic chairs, plastic tables, phone screens, tv soaps, chicken rice, and the poem’s final word, which tells us what we have always known.’
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‘The prose poem begins in present tense—we are inside the trauma.’
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