3 documents
A Burning House on Road 32
Naeem Mohaiemen
e-flux Notes
Posted: August 9, 2024
Subjects
Southeast Asia, Protests & Demonstrations
# 65
Traitors, a Mutable Lexicon
Naeem Mohaiemen
In the 1980s, television in Dhaka was a sterile broadcast box. There was one government channel (Bangladesh Television), starting at six in the evening and ending at midnight with a fluttering flag over Tagore’s national anthem. Programming formats were prescribed, and even to sing on one of the variety shows, you had to pass an exam to become a “registered artist.” The nightly English-language program was usually a “remaindered” show on delayed recycling routes ( High Chaparral and The…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Category
War & Conflict
Subjects
Television, Southeast Asia, Violence
# 63
All That is Certain Vanishes Into Air: Tracing the Anabasis of the Japanese Red Army
Naeem Mohaiemen
When I was a child, I was told that when people died they became stars. I didn’t really believe it, but I could appreciate it. We three Red Army soldiers wanted to become Orion when we died. And it calms my heart to think that all the people we killed will also become stars in the same heaven. As the revolution goes on, how the stars will multiply!
—Közö Okamoto, interview in Israeli prison 1
The news item was nondescript. 2 In a four-sentence summary, a Japanese news service…
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 1, 2015
Category
Film, Literature
Subjects
Japan, Trauma, East Asia, Revolution