Hello, everyone! Happy Malaysia Day to all of you who are from Malaysia! On another and related note, those of you who know me probably know that I am a big fan of Lee Kuan Yew.  Well, that’s a bit of a small understatement. I mean, it would have to […]

It is likely that you have heard from an early age that “seeing is believing.”  As life goes on, it becomes clear that that advice is only partly effective. There are many things in this world that can be true even if we cannot see that they are true. That […]

I’ll be honest: I did not expect this post to unsettle me. I sat down to do something simple, ask an AI to write a blog post about the experience of writing a blog post with AI, and somewhere between the first paragraph and the last, I stopped feeling like […]

I am writing this after contemplating Fanon’s “Black Skin, White Masks” and undertaking a full sequence of reading on the way to reading Homi K. Bhabha’s “The Location of Culture” upon Shahril Hamdan’s recommendation – incidentally, after failing to understand it and after complaining to Shahril, I realized that perhaps […]

There’s a specific neoliberal idea that is very common in online content creation, and it’s one that online gurus tend to repeat one after another as if it were coordinated and they were all given the same script: “Post whatever it is that you want. Nobody is looking, nobody cares. […]