Clarissa AL Lee's Lateral Worlds

      What qualifies as "toxic" in society is an inherently unstable category, dependent on risk assessment, structures of profit but also cultural ideas about safety and health. This joint lecture focus es on a specific form of toxicity, namely nuclear toxicity, through the example of management of nuclear fuel resource s, especially in their aftermath as waste. Starting with an overview of technoscientific risks consideration of nuclear, we will venture into questions of safety, recycling, storage, and stakeholders interpretation through art, broaching case-studies from Europe, Asia and the US.   This joint-lecture falls under the Leonardo Lecture series, under the auspice of Excursus of Energy Transitions under the remit of  "Resource Policy."   https://www.leonardo.rwth-aachen.de/en/modules/suse-2023/resource-policy-2/ 

The public lecture will take place on  June 7, at 5 pm(CET) w at the Stadtpalais, Theaterstraße 75, 52062 Aachen. You can also attend online via the following link https://rwth.zoom.us/j/91769488851?pwd=VnBKc1l1M0JRSzBzRDIwZFBodFlYQT09 Meeting-ID: 917 6948 8851 Kenncode: 477889 ABSTRACT: This talk explores how one could develop and apprehend a philosophically intuited syzygy that is art and science, giving way to art-science and artscience (without the hyphen). However, this is not merely about what philosophy could do for artscience (the un-hyphenated version is the speaker’s preferred choice for reasons to be explained in the talk), but also untangles and highlights the simultaneous (and comparative) philosophical arguments that invariably, even if not intentionally, exert the co-existence of art-like (filtered through aesthetics) and science-like (filtered through cognitive acts of logic) subjects in epistemological discussions that often reinforce reductive representations of a...

 It's been 4 months since I'd last posted as I'd been busy completing some papers, attending workshops, presenting at one of a major local conference, and also completing the first draft of a revised book project proposal (these were all between January and the first week of April 2023). This month, it has been about building (and exploring) new skills while also organizing materials (both past and new stuff) for the first two chapters of my book. That said, there are a few announcements to be made with regard to recently published articles, starting from December 2022 since I have forgotten to post about the small booklet that came out in that month. In Devember 2022, my article-length book, " Stanning" Najib: Fanning a Personality Cult in Malaysian Politics " was published by ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. This book is co-authored with ISEAS's research associate Amirul Adli Rosli. This work brings together political communication, fan studies, and platfor...

 It has been awhile since i have updated here, as life has taken a different turn this past year. I left my tenure-track position at Universiti Malaya (despite having three more years on the contract, although that had since reduced to 2 years and 4 months by the time I left) to pursue the broadening of horizons and also to make my own creative and intellectual dreams come true (and go through). This is done by giving myself this year, through the affordances of a fellowship, to reconfigure things I am doing so that they are more in line with the direction I am seeing myself increasingly converging on. It has been a challenging yet good year of new experiences, new insights, and self-reflections. I was losing the ability to try new things and take risks in what I do, and now, I see myself returning, taking a small step at a time, to what had made life worthwhile in the first place. Before that, I had spent the months between June 2022 and September 2022, which was about 4 months, t...

You can obtain this article when it comes out to the nearest bookstore to you in Malaysia, or you can buy it online here to save the hassle. See below for a snapshot of the article and the TOC.

The new semester is already in full-swing since the last time I posted - over the long 'summer' days of eternal lockdowns (now that the summer has passed, the lockdown has also been lifted), I have been busily giddy with new discoveries that I forget my promise to post here more regularly - some of these 'discoveries' will make their appearances next year. Some have already been published as tasters . Not only that, I had also not been as active on social media. In fact, it is only since two days ago that I am taking the time, for the first time in months, to tidy up my Academia page (do have a look to see what new updates there are since your last visit) where I have decided to get rid of most of the uploaded talks from my graduate student days except the ones delivered thereafter. A talk (in bilingual texts) that marks my first participation in a theater-centric conference (I had never done this prior to my present job) that brings together past and present interest...

When I was a kid, I loved sleep. I used to have this school holiday practice of sleeping early (forcing myself to do so even when I didn't want to) and then making myself wake up early and planned a bunch of activities for myself. Growing up in the 20th century without the ubiquitous electronics and 24/7 streaming services made this fairly easy (especially when the TV went dead by a certain time). Sure, I was also the kid that enjoyed staying up and watching old movies. But the most important thing of all, I slept well regardless.  When I failed an exam, I slept well. When I resented someone, I slept well. As a kid, we probably had the natural habit of not allowing any of the emotions of the day to carry into bedtime and the next day. This practice is lost on us as adults. As part of my own enforced well-being practice on weekends (I am getting better at it by reminding myself that I will be more productive this way, although I still fall through the cracks), I read Sleep Smarter: ...