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Collapsing New Buildings takes its name from the recent upsurge of industrial
accidents throughout Asia. The 1995 collapse of the Sampoong Department Store in
Seoul claimed hundreds of lives, and similar disasters have hit Thailand, India,
China, and other nations of the so-called "developing world." These events
are perhaps the most dramatic evidence of a crisis in the economic and political
development of Asia and the Pacific.
Foregrounding critical dialogues between the most outspoken intellectuals in Asia
and the diaspora, MUAE 2 looks at the ways development has been theorized
in an Asian context and interrogate the ways historical ideas of progress have been
considered. To facilitate the exchange of critical ideas among diasporic and Asian
communities, a third of Collapsing New Buildings has been translated into
Korean.
Collapsing New Buildings features:
- Nobel Peace Prize nominee Sulak Sivaraksa and bell hooks on development as if
people mattered.
- Rem Koolhaas and Masao Miyoshi on tabula rasa and new projects in Asia.
- Vandana Shiva and Joung Yoon Lym on bioengineering, intellectual property, and
the colonization of science.
- Haunani-Kay Trask on sovereignty in Hawai'i.
- Critical Art Ensemble on posthuman development.
- Celeste Olalquiaga on tourism and decay in Caracas.
- A graphic story by Hanawa Kazuichi.
- A portfolio on the new wave of Iranian cinema, edited by Jamsheed Akrami.
- New fiction and poetry by Karen Tei Yamashita, Kimiko Hahn, and le thi diem thuy.
- Artist's projects by Mariko Mori, Shu Lea Cheang, Kim MyoungHye, and Ahn Sung-Keum.
- Translations into Korean by Choe Inho.
You may also be interested in reading Lawrence Chua's novel:
Gold By The
Inch (Grove/Atlantic, 1998)
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