Human Rights and the Arts: Perspectives on Global Asia approaches human rights issues from the perspective of artists and writers in global Asia. By focusing on the interventions of writers, artists, filmmakers, and dramatists, the book moves toward a new understanding of human rights that shifts the discussion of contexts and subjects away from the binaries of cultural relativism and political sovereignty. From Ai Wei Wei and Michael Ondaatje, to Umar Kayam, Saryang Kim, Lia Zixin, and No...

This anthology of literary and dramatic works introduces writers from across Asia and the Asian diaspora. The landscapes and time periods it describes are rich and varied: a fishing village on the Padma River in Bangladesh in the early twentieth century, the slums of prewar Tokyo, Indonesia during the anti-leftist purge of the 1960s, and contemporary Tibet. Even more varied are the voices these works bring to life, which serve as testimony to the lives of those adversely impacted by povert...

Resistance on the National Stage analyzes the ways in which, between 1985 and 1998, modern theater pracxadtitioners in Indonesia contributed to a rising movement of social protest against the long-governing New Order regime of President Suharto. It examines the work of an array of theater groups and networks from Jakarta, Bandung, and Yogyakarta that pioneered new forms of theater-making and new themes that were often presented more directly and critically than previous groups had...

Ob ernsthafte Bedrohung oder Chance für die Menschheit – künstliche Intelligenz ist ein immer wiederkehrendes Thema in der Science Fiction, von Klassikern wie E. M. Forsters Die Maschine steht still, Asimovs Roboter-Romane über die NEUROMANCER-Reihe von William Gibson bis hin zu zeitgenössischen Werken wie Pantopia von Theresa Hannig oder Martha Wells' MURDERBOT-Reihe. Inzwischen ist KI jedoch nicht allein Thema in Romanen – KI ist jetzt: ChatGPT, Dall-E, DeepL und Midjourney etc. sind in ...