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In the eye of the storm
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 30/09/2016
» The photograph is brutal because the reality is brutal.
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Hear youthful outrage amid a silent sit-in
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 30/05/2015
» They were not martyrs, heroes, or Jesuses nailed at the crosses as the crows picked out their eyes. They were just students who wanted to express their disagreement, which was the least anybody could do in a world where disagreement has not yet been outlawed (really?) and at a time when everybody else has been lulled into fake silence. The scene outside Bangkok Art and Culture Centre on May 22 was ugly, not as ugly as Tiananmen Square in 1989, or Gwangju in 1980, or Thammasat in 1976, but ugly enough to let us glimpse the flames beneath the volcano.
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The fifty shades of censorship
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 14/02/2015
» So, in the past week, what has got through the censors? What, in art and in academia, has slipped past the iron curtain of our saintly, this-is-not-dictatorship authorities?
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When writing is a crime, we all risk exile
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 28/02/2015
» The risks of writing are many, especially when what you write pricks the hot-air balloon of sanctimony: You risk hatred, invective, threats, anonymous phone calls at midnight, mysterious motorcyclists outside your doors and bullets sprayed into your living room. You risk jail terms. But the worst, I imagine, is the risk of banishment, of voluntary exile that’s not actually voluntary. Maybe the worst risk of all hits you once you’ve left on a one-way ticket: the risk of nostalgia.
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Apex drops 'Mockingjay'
Kong Rithdee, Published on 19/11/2014
» The management of the Lido and Scala theatres has decided not to show the movie <i>The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1</i> for fear of a political backlash.
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Memories are the first victim of 'happiness'
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/10/2014
» October is here. Along with the monsoon and beclouded mood, the month has always been marked by the political remembrance whose toxic vapour still leaves a nasty taste in the mouth even of those who didn't live through it.
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If Somsak's crazy, why get so mad?
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 15/02/2014
» From heckling to death threats, from trolling to live bullets. From malignant distribution of the enemy’s home address and licence plate number, to good old calls for his head, both real and metaphorical. Burn the witch at the stake: the “punishment” for thoughtcrime in the land of crooked smiles is severe.
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Suthep's rickety ark is going to sink us all
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 11/01/2014
» The season of non-reason continues, like the polar vortex that deep-freezes the cerebrum, icing out Bangkok from its Ratchadamnoen core.
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Conceptual reality
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 15/01/2014
» It is ill-fated irony that an art exhibition which is probably most relevant to the current political havoc is unable to be viewed because of that havoc itself.
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In the book of exile, Thaksin pens his legacy
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 02/11/2013
» There are exiles that last a lifetime and others that last a weekend. To be exiled, says the self-exiled writer Roberto Bolano, "is not to disappear but to shrink, to slowly or quickly get smaller and smaller until we reach our real height, the true height of the self".
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