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🌏 Interview | Brett Neilson and Sandro Mezzadra on Multipolarity, War Regimes, and Global Struggle
TARN is pleased to draw attention to The Rest and the West: Capital and Power in a Multipolar World, published by Verso Books, co-authored by TARN members Brett Neilson and Sandro Mezzadra. Deliberately inverting Stuart Hall's formulation of "the West and the Rest,"...
🔜Forthcoming Publication: Critical Concepts & Smart City (Human Craft in the Age of Digital Technologies)
📣 The member collaborative project "Critical Reorientation in the Age of Digital Technology: Intersections between Human Craft, Geopolitics, and Artistic Intervention," along with its inaugural event, the Critical Concepts Writing Workshop, has been awarded USD...
📢 CFP: Cultures of Waste: Bodies and Biodiversity (Oxford Intersections)
CALL FOR PAPERS Bodies and Biodiversity (Oxford Intersections) Oxford Intersections are large, peer-reviewed, digital-only works centered around a broad, multi-faceted, and interdisciplinary topic – Cultures of Waste in this case. Intersections will showcase original,...
📢 CFP ISSH2026 Conference: The Social in the Digital (11-12 June, 2026 HCMC, Vietnam)
The Social in the Digital Date: 11-12 June, 2026.Conference Venue: Ton Duc Thang UniversityAddress: 19 Nguyen Huu Tho Street, Tan Phong Ward, District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, VietnamEmail: issh2024@tdtu.edu.vn The 4th International Conference on Innovations in the Social...
📣 PUBLICATION: Decolonization in the 21st Century
Rethinking Coloniality, Resistance & Solidarity Publisher: Routledge Series: InterventionsEdited by Joyce C.H. Liu and Brett Neilson, Decolonization in the 21st Century critically interrogates the persistence and mutation of colonial logics amidst rising global...
✨ TARN 2025 HIGHLIGHT
Having established its foundational framework between the 2023 launch and the 2024 meeting on industrial geopolitics, the Transit Asia Research Network (TARN) has intensified its critical interventions throughout 2025. This year, the network rigorously examined...
CRPCS, the TARN Collaborator in Kolkata, goes for Public Launch!
📢 The Transit Asia Research Network (TARN) are pleased to announce the launch of the Centre for Research in Policy, Communication and Society (CRPCS), India.The centre, established under the leadership of Professor Abhijit Roy, officially commenced operations...
Wired Tianxia, Wounded Borders
📝 The following articles are revised from a TARN panel presented at the 2025 CHCI Annual Meeting in Berlin, Germany. The original publications are on the CJD Platform. This panel addresses the rise of authoritarian regimes in our time, while responding to the theme of...
New Publications & Call for Papers | CJD Platform (TARN: ICCS-NYCU)
NEW PUBLICATIONS April 2025 Die Behandlung, Tenderness of the In-between Chia-Ying Shen A poetic reflection on care and transition, this piece delves into the quiet power of liminal spaces — where tenderness, attention, and the in-between become sites of...
TARN Joint Project: Chip Age & Digital Governance
📣 The TARN Joint Project, titled "Chip Age and Digital Governance: Geopolitics, National Strategies, and Capital Manipulation," has received USD 10,000 from the CHCI Membership Activity Fund. Chip Age & Digital Governance: Geopolitics, National Strategies,...
2024 TARN Meeting Report
A TARN workshop titled “Industry-led Operations of Capital in the 21st Century: Geo-Politics,...
Sidenote: “Creating Emancipatory Futures: Filmmaking and Activism”
*written by Sergey Zanchevskiy (Graduate Student of IACS,NYCU) On March 11, 2024, Valerie Soe, a professor in the Asian American Studies Department at the San Francisco State University (USA), film director, and writer, gave a lecture dedicated to the phenomenon of...