In anticipation of his debut novel, Jinwoo Chong shares the genealogy of writing Flux, an ambitious novel told through multiple perspectives. Chong talks about being inspired by Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, and weaving them into a complex novel that examines multiple discourses, including technocapitalism, overblown promises of technology, nostalgia, pop culture, representation, and much more.
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Art Criticism and the Black Imagination (with Erica N. Cardwell)
Afropessimism and Writing Shattered (with Dr. Matthieu Chapman)
Essaying ‘The Loneliness Files” (with Athena Dixon)
'To Be An Adult Immigrant is to Lead a Life with 4 Senses, Instead of 5' (with Nishanth Injam)
Reading Trauma in Colonialism and Being Misread (with Dr. Noreen Masud)
Resistance and 'Radical Intimacy' (with Sophie K. Rosa)
The Making of a 'Modern' Thailand (with Mai Nardone)
Extrapolating Geographies and Intertextuality (with Lamya H.)
The Pleasure of the Text In the Kitchen, In Domestic Spaces, In Theories of the Body (with Rebecca May Johnson)
‘Monetary Authorities’: Racial Capitalism and Unconditional Decolonization (with Dr. Allan E. S. Lumba)
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Symmetry/Asymmetry of Language and Translation (with Su Cho)
Untangling 'Trauma, Tresses, & Truth' (with Lyzette Wanzer)
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Black German Studies and Transnational Collectivity (with Dr. Tiffany N. Florvil)
Translation As Literary (Co)Creation (with Nguyễn An Lý)
Afro-Brazilian Media and Antiracist Visual Politics (with Dr. Reighan Gillam)
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